New immune systems: Pathogen-specific host defence, life history strategies and hypervariable immune-response genes of invertebrates

Invertebrate Survival Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 127-136

  Bowden, L ^a   Dheilly, N M ^a   Raftos, David A ^a   Nair, S V ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive immunity; Host defence; Hypervariability; Immunization; Invertebrate immunology

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649110437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1824307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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