Ecoimmunity: Immune tolerance by symmetric co-evolution

Evolution and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 632-642

  Nevo, Uri ^a   Hauben, Ehud ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b SAN RAFFAELE SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; APOPTOSIS; COEVOLUTION; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; PHENOTYPE; SELF TOLERANCE;

EID: 35748944838     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2007.00201.x     Document Type: Review

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