Invertebrate immunity and the limits of mechanistic immunology

Nature Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 651-654

  Little, Tom J ^a   Hultmark, Dan ^b   Read, Andrew F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INVERTEBRATES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 22144470851     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1219     Document Type: Review

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