Hello! I was reading papers about innate immunity and I encountered this term: "Microorganisms that invade a vertebrate host are initially recognized by the innate immune system through germline-encoded pattern-recognition receptors" ,"A set of germline-encoded receptors, referred to as pattern recognition receptors, evolved in host organisms to recognize PAMPs". But the definition on wiki (In biology and genetics, the germline in a multicellular organism is the population of its bodily cells that are so differentiated or segregated that in the usual processes of reproduction they may pass on their genetic material to the progeny) doesn't seem to fit here.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
David