Many of the major human infectious diseases, including some now confined to humans and
absent from animals, are 'new'ones that arose only after the origins of agriculture. Where did …

Proteins encoded by the classical major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes incite the
vertebrate adaptive immune response by presenting peptide antigens on the cell surface …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

Research into immune defense has been considerably enriched by the increasing focus on
innate immunity. This type of immunity is still considered to lack specific memory, largely …

The traditional view that species are held together through gene flow has been challenged
by observations that migration is too restricted among populations of many species to …

The highly polymorphic human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules help to determine
the specificity and repertoire of the immune response. The great diversity of these antigen …

In comparison with the major histocompatibility complexes (MHCs) of typical mammals, the
chicken MHC is simple and compact with a single dominantly expressed class I molecule …

Fascinating about classical major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules is their
polymorphism. The present study is a review and discussion of the fish MHC situation. The …

The cross-species transmission of lentiviruses from African primates to humans has selected
viral adaptations which have subsequently facilitated human-to-human transmission. HIV …

Simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) are primate lentiviruses that infect no fewer than 36
different nonhuman primate species in sub-Saharan Africa (4, 9, 62). Two of these viruses …