Evolution of the immune system in the lower vertebrates

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages 127-149

  Boehm, Thomas ^a   Iwanami, Norimasa ^a   Hess, Isabell ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

antigen receptor; immunoglobulin supergene family; leucine rich repeat; lymphocyte lineage; somatic diversification

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN IB ALPHA; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; CELL LINEAGE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HAGFISH; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGENETICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; LAMPREY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; LYMPHOID TISSUE; PHYLOGENY;

AGNATHA; CHONDRICHTHYES; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); HAGFISH; MAMMALIA; PETROMYZONTIDAE; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866160040     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: 1545293X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-090711-163747     Document Type: Review

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