Advances in Comparative Immunology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cooper, Edwin L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Invertebrates.; Vertebrates.; Medical Microbiology.

Immunologists, perhaps understandably, most often concentrate on the human immune system, an anthropocentric focus that has resulted in a dearth of information about the immune function of all other species within the animal kingdom. However, knowledge of animal immune function could help not only t...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements and Reminiscences
• Preface
• Part I. From Prokaryotes to Urochordates
• Introduction: Evolution of Immunity
• Allorecognition and Innate Immunity in the Dictyostelid Social Amoebae
• Cnidarian Immunity: Anthozoans in the Hot Seat
• Molecular Dissection of the Planarian Innate Immune System
• The C. elegans Model for Innate Immunity
• Earthworm Immunity: Quo Vadis? Advances and new Paradigms in the Omics Era
• Recognition of Non-Self in Earthworms
• Immunity in Mollusks: Recognition and Effector Mechanisms with a Focus on Bivalvia
• Molluscan immunobiology: Challenges in the Anthropocene Epoch
• The Complex Immune System in Echinoderms
• Natural Chimerism and Tolerance Induction in a Colonial Chordate
• The Inflammatory Response: The Basic Process of the Ascidians Innate Immunity
• Part II. From Cephalochordates to Vertebrates
• Complex Immunity in Cephalochordates
• The Origin and Early Evolution of Adaptive Immune Systems
• The Immune System of Cartilaginous Fishes
• Immune System of Teleosts
• Humoral Immunity in Reptiles
• Cellular Immunity in Reptiles
• The Immunological Characteristics of Fowls and Ostriches
• Immunology of Bats
• Elephant Immune System
• Comparative Phylogeny of the Nasopharynx-Associated Lymphoid Tissue
• Part III. Future Paths, Climate Change, Environmental Influences, Cancer, Therapy
• An Introduction to Ecoimmunology
• Environmental Interactions and Ecotoxicity in Relation to the Earthworm Immune System
• P53 Protein Family in Molluscan Transmissible Cancer: Lessons Learned
• Global Amphibian Declines Caused by an Emerging Infectious Disease and Inadequate Immune Responses
• Invertebrate Immunology from the Clinician's Perspective
• Pathogens and Cancer: Clonal Processes and Evolution.