Advances in Comparative Immunology

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.

Edwin L. Cooper is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.