Publication Date:
2013-04-10
Description:
Jawless vertebrates are pivotal representatives for studies of the evolution of adaptive immunity due to their unique position in chordate phylogeny. Lamprey and hagfish, the extant jawless vertebrates, have an alternative lymphocyte-based adaptive immune system that is based on somatically diversifying leucine-rich repeat (LRR)-based antigen receptors, termed variable lymphocyte receptors...
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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