Immune responses in Invertebrates and Lower Vertebrates

Guest editor: Michel Leclerc · IRILV-20Its last articles are still in review; they appear here as they are published.

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Important dates

Call opens16 Jun 2020 · done
Submission deadline1 Oct 2020 · done
Collection complete15 Dec 2020 · done

About this special issue

At the beginning, in 1980-85, we discovered the sea star T-like and B-like lymphocytes, the phagocytes, and cellular cooperation to express antibody-like humoral response.

Then, from 2010 to 2019, genomic studies, assert evidence of kappa genes (Imlet, 2011) Igkappa gene (Meta Gene, 2013) Fab fragment gene (2016) Fc receptor gene (2016): they corroborate humoral response in invertebrates. Now, we speak, in invertebrates of IPA (Invertebrate Primitive Antibody) and not of an "Antibody-like" factor, we speak of T and B sea star lymphocytes and not T-like or B-like subsets.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Immune cells in Invertebrates and Lower Vertebrates
Humoral responses in Invertebrates and Lower Vertebrates
Immune genes in Invertebrates and Lower Vertebrates
Kappa genes in Lower Vertebrates

Guest editor

Michel LeclercResearcher, Université d'Orléans, France

Published so far

Each accepted article is published in the journal’s next regular issue as soon as its author approves the proof, and appears here.

No articles yetThe first articles appear here when they are published.