Antimicrobial peptide repertoire

Female sex is associated with antimicrobial peptide repertoire in flies.

“females expressed a larger repertoire of AMPs than males, but extracted equivalent survival benefits.”

Model organismsfemales versus maless

Ageing leads to nonspecific antimicrobial peptide responses in Drosophila melanogaster

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)·Jun 28, 2022Preprint