Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Immune System - Couverture souple
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Synopsis
List of Contents.- Bridge to Invertebrates.- New Approaches Towards an Understanding of Deuterostome Immunity.- The Antimicrobial Host Defense of Drosophila.- Origin and Evolution of the Complement System.- Major Vertebrate Evolutionary Issues.- Genome Paralogy: A New Perspective on the Organization and Origin of the Major Histocompatibility Complex.- Phylogeny of Lower Vertebrates and Their Immunological Structures.- Origin of Lymphocyte Lineages.- Recombination-Activating Genes, Transposition, and the Lymphoid-Specific Combinatorial Immune System: A Common Evolutionary Connection.- Transcription Factor Expression in Lymphocyte Development: Clues to the Evolutionary Origins of Lymphoid Cell Lineages?.- Origin of Receptors.- The Phylogenetic Origin of Antigen-Specific Receptors.- Evolution of Receptors.- Immunoglobulin Isotypes: Structure, Function, and Genetics.- Evolution of Vertebrate Immunoglobulin Variable Gene Segments.- Elasmobranchs.- The Immune System of Cartilaginous Fish.- Immune-Type Diversity in the Absence of Somatic Rearrangement.- Somatic Diversification.- Evolution and Somatic Diversification of Immunoglobulin Light Chains.- TCR/CD3 Complex.- Evolution of the T Cell Receptor Signal Transduction Units.
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