Brittle star immune and genomic studies

ISBN-13: 9786137344194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 52 str.

Michel Leclerc

Opis

In 2015, we discovered the sea star(asterid) IGKappa gene and a sea star primitive antibody. 2 years later, we discover an ophuirid IGKappa gene in OPHIOCOMINA NIGRA which is the first sister of the sea star: Asterias rubens . It's like a big-bang in the immuno-genomics of INVERTEBRATES.So 2 classes of Echinodermata out of five possess an IGKAPPA gene which induce a primitive antibody , a Fab fragment gene and a Fc receptor gene. We recall that the class of echinid has no lymphocytes, no IGkappa gene; the class of holothurid has no lymphocytes.Now we have a look on the last class: the crinoïd.

O autorze

I was born in 1941 at Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire (France).Bachelor,I studied Immunology and sexualityin asterids,and obtained the title of Doctor es Sciences,at the University of Orléans.Since I became specialist of the Immunology of Invertebrates and directed the "Laboratory of InvertebrateImmunology".I work, in the present time,in Immuno-genomics.