Invertebrate immune systems - Not homogeneous, not simple, not well understood

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 198, Issue , 2004, Pages 10-24

  Loker, Eric S ^a   Adema, Coen M ^a   Zhang, Si Ming ^a   Kepler, Thomas B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; AQUACULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; COELENTERATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; GENOMICS; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; MOLLUSC; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA URCHIN; SHRIMP; SOMATIC MUTATION; SPONGE (PORIFERA); SYMBIONT;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOSAICISM; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 1642545529     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2004.0117.x     Document Type: Review

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