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Plant Defensins and Defensin-Like Peptides - Biological Activities and Biotechnological Applications

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The Origin and Function of Anti-Fungal Peptides in C. elegans: Open Questions

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A phylogeny and molecular barcodes for Caenorhabditis, with numerous new species from rotting fruits

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MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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Functional role of charged residues in drosomycin, a Drosophila antifungal peptide

(2010) Zhenting Zhang et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Fruit, flies and filamentous fungi - experimental analysis of animal-microbe competition using Drosophila melanogaster and Aspergillus mould as a model system

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(2010) Etienne G. J. Danchin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lateral Transfer of Genes from Fungi Underlies Carotenoid Production in Aphids

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Immunity and other defenses in pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010) Nicole M Gerardo et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Solution structure of Cn5, a crustacean toxin found in the venom of the scorpions Centruroides noxius and Centruroides suffusus suffusus

(2009) Gerardo Corzo et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS

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(2009) Z-T. Zhang et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Drosomycin, an Innate Immunity Peptide of Drosophila melanogaster, Interacts with the Fly Voltage-gated Sodium Channel

(2009) Lior Cohen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

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Differential potency of drosomycin toNeurospora crassaand its mutant: implications for evolutionary relationship between defensins from insects and plants

(2008) B. Gao et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Gene expression, antiparasitic activity, and functional evolution of the drosomycin family

(2008) Caihuan Tian et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

The evolution of the Ecdysozoa

(2008) M. J Telford et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sequence and genetic map of Meloidogyne hapla: A compact nematode genome for plant parasitism

(2008) C. H. Opperman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Discovery of six families of fungal defensin-like peptides provides insights into origin and evolution of the CSαβ defensins

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