The innate immune repertoire in Cnidaria - ancestral complexity and stochastic gene loss

David J Miller^{* 1} , Georg Hemmrich^{* 2} , Eldon E Ball³ , David C Hayward³ , Konstantin Khalturin² , Noriko Funayama⁴ , Kiyokazu Agata⁴ and Thomas CG Bosch²

¹ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies and Comparative Genomics Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia

²Zoological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Olshausenstrasse, 24098 Kiel, Germany

³ARC Centre for the Molecular Genetics of Development, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

⁴Department of Biophysics, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan