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The question, “Why is insect immunity interesting” was posed by Boman et al. (1974a) and, as might be expected, they brought forth a number of satisfactory answers to the question. If we go one step further and ask the question: “What is the basic mechanism (or mechanisms) underlying insect immunity”, we cannot do nearly as satisfactory a job of answering.
Original studies included were aided in part by Grant No. A-1958 from the National Research Council of Canada
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Chadwick, J.S. (1977). Induction and Effector Mechanisms of Insect Immunity. In: Bulla, L.A., Cheng, T.C. (eds) Comparative Pathobiology. Comparative Pathobiology, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7299-2_5
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