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Guillaume Tetreau1,2

  • 1University of Perpignan, IHPE UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, University of Montpellier, 66000 Perpignan, France. guillaume.tetreau@gmail.com.

Toxins
|July 11, 2018
PubMed
Summary

This study reveals how separating insect-toxin-bacteria research into toxinology and immunology fields creates a biased view. Bridging these fields offers a more accurate understanding of host-pathogen interactions.

Keywords:
Bacillus thuringiensishost-pathogens interactioninvertebrate immunityresistancetoxins

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