Featured Paper: The origin and function of anti-fungal peptides in C. elegans

The origin and function of anti-fungal peptides in C. elegans: open questions
by Nathalie Pujol, Paul A. Davis* and Jonathan J. Ewbank

This paper describes a gene-class of short proteins expressed during fungal challenge and covers most nematodes included in WormBase.

Front Immunol. 2012;3:237. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00237. Epub 2012 Aug 1.

*Disclaimer: Paul Davis is a WormBase curator at the EBI