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New approaches towards an understanding of deuterostome immunity / J.P. Rast, Z. Pancer, and E.H. Davidson -- The antimicrobial host defense of Drosophila / M. Meister, C. Hetru, and J.A. Hoffmann -- Origin and evolution of the complement system / M. Nonaka -- Genome paralogy : a new perspective on the organization and origin of the major histocompatibility complex / M. Kasahara -- Phylogeny of lower vertebrates and their immunological structures / A. Zapata and C.T. Amemiya -- Recombination-activating genes, transposition, and the lymphoid-specific combinatorial immune system : a common evolutionary connection / J.D. Hansen and J.F. McBlane -- Transcription factor expression in lymphocyte development : clues to the evolutionary origins of lymphoid cell lineages? / M.K. Anderson and E.V. Rothenberg -- The phylogenetic origin of antigen-specific receptors / L. Du Pasquier -- Immunoglobulin isotypes : structure, function, and genetics / E. Bengtén ... [et al.] -- Evolution of vertebrate immunoglobulin variable gene segments / T. Ota, T. Sitnikova, and M. Nei -- The immune system of cartilaginous fish / M.F. Flajnik and L.L. Rumfelt -- Immune-type diversity in the absence of somatic rearrangement / J.A. Yoder and G.W. Litman -- Evolution and somatic diversification of immunoglobulin light chains / S.S. Lee, A. Greenberg, and E. Hsu -- Evolution of the T cell receptor signal transduction units / T.W.F. Göbel and L. Bolliger. |
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