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 7 Transcription Factor Expression in Lymphocyte Development: Clues to the Evolutionary Origins of Lymphoid Cell Lineages?

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 13 Evolution and Somatic Diversification of Immunoglobulin Light Chains

Chapter 14 Evolution of the T Cell Receptor Signal Transduction Units