Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Immune System
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Louis Pasquier, Gary W. Litman.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2000
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(x, 326 pages 81 illustrations, 7 illustrations in color.)
SERIES
Series Title
Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 248.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Bridge to Invertebrates --;New Approaches Towards an Understanding of Deuterostome Immunity --;The Antimocrobial Host Defense of Drosophila --;Origin and Evolution of the Complement System --;Genome Paralogy --;Phylogeny of Lower Vertebrates and Their Immunological Structures --;Recombination-Activating Genes, Transposition, and the Lymphoid-Specific Combinatorial Immune System: A Common Evolutionary Connection --;Transcription Factor Expression in Lymphocyte Development --;The Phylogenetic Origin of Antigen-Specific Receptors --;Immunoglobulin Isotypes: Structure, Function, and Genetics --;Evolution of Vertebrate Immunoglobulin Variable Gene Segments --;The Immune System of Cartilaginous Fish --;Immune-Type Diversity in the Absence of Somatic Rearrangement --;Evolution and Somatic Diversification of Immunoglobulin Light Chains --;Evolution of the T Cell Receptor Signal Transduction Units.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
The comparative approach to immunology can be traced to the era of Pasteur and Metchnikov in which observations regarding foreign recognition in invertebrates was a factor in the develop- ment of the principal concepts that created the foundation of what now is the broad field of immunology.