Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Volume 484: Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Vertebrate Immune System

by Gregory Beck

Primitive species are capable of recognition and defence, thus lessons learned from them can provide a basis for understanding strategies that vertebrate animals have adopted. The papers in this volume explore the mechanisms of multicellular organisms used to distinguish between self and non-self in response to parasitism or infection. Studies of these mechanisms used by primitive species for their defences have extensive implications for understanding the evolution of immunity and problems of human health and disease.

376 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1994