Bridge to Invertebrates

New Approaches Towards an Understanding of Deuterostome Immunity

J.P. Rast

Z. Pancer

E.H. Davidson

The Antimicrobial Host Defense of Drosophila

M. Meister

C. Hetru

J.A. Hoffmann

Origin and Evolution of the Complement System

M. Nonaka

Major Vertebrate Evolutionary Issues

Genome Paralogy: A New Perspective on the Organization and Origin of the Major Histocompatibility Complex

M. Kasahara

Phylogeny of Lower Vertebrates and Their Immunological Structures

A. Zapata

C.T. Amemiya

Origin of Lymphocyte Lineages

Recombination-Activating Genes, Transposition, and the Lymphoid-Specific Combinatorial Immune System: A Common Evolutionary Connection

J.D. Hansen

J.F. McBlane

Transcription Factor Expression in Lymphocyte Development: Clues to the Evolutionary Origins of Lymphoid Cell Lineages?

M.K. Anderson

E.V. Rothenberg

Origin of Receptors

The Phylogenetic Origin of Antigen-Specific Receptors

L. Du Pasquier

Evolution of Receptors

Immunoglobulin Isotypes: Structure, Function, and Genetics

E. Bengten

M. Wilson

N. Miller

L.W. Clem

L. Pilstrom

G.W. Warr

Evolution of Vertebrate Immunoglobulin Variable Gene Segments

T. Ota

T. Sitnikova

M. Nel

Elasmobranchs

The Immune System of Cartilaginous Fish

M.F. Flajnik

L.L. Rumfelt

Immune-Type Diversity in the Absence of Somatic Rearrangement

J.A. Yoder

G.W. Litman

Somatic Diversification

Evolution and Somatic Diversification of Immunoglobulin Light Chains

S.S. Lee

A. Greenberg

E. Hsu

TCR/CD3 Complex

Evolution of the T Cell Receptor Signal Transduction Units

T.W.F. Gobel

L. Bolliger

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