Francesca Pinton
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PhD student - Hejnol's Lab - FSU Jena
First paper of my PhD published 🎉
doi.org/10.1186/s129...
It's about immunity in acoel worms and its link to photosymbiosis. There's evolution and immune gene expression, but also mortality, dysbiosis, and host responses upon pathogen exposure. With
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Absence of conserved immune signalling pathways and increased pathogen susceptibility associated to photosymbiosis in acoels - BMC Biology
Background Host immunity plays an important role in coral symbiosis with dinoflagellates. Photosymbiosis (the association between hosts and photosynthetic endosymbionts) has evolved multiple times wit...
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-026-02506-w
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