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SUBMITTER: Palmer WJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4795035 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Palmer William J WJ Duarte Ana A Schrader Matthew M Day Jonathan P JP Kilner Rebecca R Jiggins Francis M FM
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20160127 1823
Some group-living species exhibit social immunity, where the immune response of one individual can protect others in the group from infection. In burying beetles, this is part of parental care. Larvae feed on vertebrate carcasses which their parents smear with exudates that inhibit microbial growth. We have sequenced the transcriptome of the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides and identified six genes that encode lysozymes-a type of antimicrobial enzyme that has previously been implicated in ...[more]