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Mimicry all the way down

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Morphological mimicry among organisms has long been recognized as an adaptive strategy, but mimicry also occurs at the molecular level. One emerging example is microbial pathogens' use of structural mimics that engage host-cell receptors.

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Figure 1: Molecular mimics.

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  1. Matthew F. Barber and Nels C. Elde are in the Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.,

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Barber, M., Elde, N. Mimicry all the way down. Nature 501, 38–39 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/501038a

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