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Hypothesis for heritable, anti-viral immunity in crustaceans and insects

Timothy W Flegel1,2,3,4 email

Center of Excellence for Shrimp Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Centex Shrimp

Dept. of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Rama 6 Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Klong Luang, Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand

National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Klong Luang, Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand

author email corresponding author email

Biology Direct 2009, 4:36doi:10.1186/1745-6150-4-36

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.biology-direct.com/content/4/1/36

Received: 29 September 2009
Accepted: 1 October 2009
Published: 1 October 2009

© 2009 Flegel; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Correction to Flegel, TW: Hypothesis for heritable, anti-viral immunity in crustaceans and insects. Biology Direct 2009, 4:32.

Correction

The published version of this article [1] omits the references from the Reviewer's Comments section (citations 41 to 47). The missing references appear here in their respective order [2-8].

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