Chapter 1 New Approaches Towards an Understanding of Deuterostome Immunity

Chapter 2 The Antimicrobial Host Defense of Drosophila

Chapter 3 Origin and Evolution of the Complement System

Chapter 4 Genome Paralogy: A New Perspective on the Organization and Origin of the Major Histocompatibility Complex

Chapter 5 Phylogeny of Lower Vertebrates and Their Immunological Structures

Chapter 6 Recombination-Activating Genes, Transposition, and the Lymphoid-Specific Combinatorial Immune System: A Common Evolutionary Connection

Chapter 8 The Phylogenetic Origin of Antigen-Specific Receptors

Chapter 9 Immunoglobulin Isotypes: Structure, Function, and Genetics

Chapter 10 Evolution of Vertebrate Immunoglobulin Variable Gene Segments

Chapter 11 The Immune System of Cartilaginous Fish

Chapter 12 Immune-Type Diversity in the Absence of Somatic Rearrangement

Chapter 13 Evolution and Somatic Diversification of Immunoglobulin Light Chains

Chapter 14 Evolution of the T Cell Receptor Signal Transduction Units