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Evolutionary Biology
Ancient vertebrate has vastly different immune system than humans
July 30th, 2004
Adaptive immunity is a marvelously flexible response to all the slings and arrows that the environment can throw at us. By shuffling segments of immunoglobulin genes, our immune systems can produce antibodies to home in, very quickly, on particular targets. However, the origin of adaptive immunity in vertebrates is a mystery, and a further conundrum is thrown up by an intriguing report from Max D. Cooper and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in the July 8, 2004, issue of Nature - the discovery of a completely different and unexpected system of adaptive immunity in a very primitive vertebrate. For some years, researchers...
Source: Genomics & Genetics Weekly (2004-07-30)
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