| hybrid advantage in skin peptide immune defenses of water frogs (pelophylax esculentus) at risk from emerging pathogens. | heterogeneity in immune defense effectors can benefit hosts encountering a variety of parasites and pathogens. antimicrobial peptides (amps) are a diverse set of immune defense effectors in many amphibians, and are secreted from dermal granular glands to protect the skin from infection. over 50 different skin peptides have been reported from the european water frog hybridogenic complex (pelophylax esculentus complex), consisting of the hybrid p. esculentus, and the parent species pelophylax less ... | 2012 | 22940461 |