A sketch of Drosophila fruit flies. (IMAGE)

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

A sketch of Drosophila fruit flies.

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Evolutionary selection can tailor host antimicrobial peptides (chains) to control specific microbiome bacteria. As a defense system common across plants and animals, variations in the repertoire of antimicrobial peptides are likely important as key risk factors for preventing infection by common ecological microbes.

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Diego Galagovsky. In Hanson et al., DOI: 10.1126/science.adg5725

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