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Invertebrate/Vertebrate Neuroendocrine and Immune Systems: Commonality of Mechanisms and Signal Molecules

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Invertebrate Immune Responses

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Concursus motus ordo positura figurae cum permutantur, mutari res quoque debent (Lucretius): “It is the combined variation of movement, rank and position that explains the variety of natural forms.”

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Franceschi, C., Ottaviani, E. (1996). Invertebrate/Vertebrate Neuroendocrine and Immune Systems: Commonality of Mechanisms and Signal Molecules. In: Cooper, E.L. (eds) Invertebrate Immune Responses. Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79847-4_8

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