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The genetic basis of resistance and matching-allele interactions of a host-parasite system: The Daphnia magna-Pasteuria ramosa model by Bento, Gilberto, Routtu, Jarkko, Fields, Peter D, Bourgeois, Yann, Du Pasquier, Louis, Ebert, Dieter

“…Negative frequency-dependent selection (NFDS) is an evolutionary mechanism suggested to govern host-parasite coevolution and the maintenance of genetic…”
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Lymphoid Tissue in Teleost Gills: Variations on a Theme by Resseguier, Julien, Dalum, Alf S, Pasquier, Louis Du, Zhang, Yaqing, Koppang, Erling Olaf, Boudinot, Pierre, Wiegertjes, Geert F

“…In bony fish, the gill filaments are essential for gas exchanges, but also are vulnerable to infection by water-borne microorganisms. Omnipresent across fish,…”
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No more non-model species: The promise of next generation sequencing for comparative immunology by Dheilly, Nolwenn M., Adema, Coen, Raftos, David A., Gourbal, Benjamin, Grunau, Christoph, Du Pasquier, Louis

“…•Comparative immunologists are facing many challenges that can be solved using NGS.•NGS will circumvent the need for genome sequences in non-model species.•NGS…”
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A large repertoire of parasite epitopes matched by a large repertoire of host immune receptors in an invertebrate host/parasite model by Moné, Yves, Gourbal, Benjamin, Duval, David, Du Pasquier, Louis, Kieffer-Jaquinod, Sylvie, Mitta, Guillaume

“…For many decades, invertebrate immunity was believed to be non-adaptive, poorly specific, relying exclusively on sometimes multiple but germ-line encoded…”
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Origin of Immunoglobulin Isotype Switching by Zhu, Catherine, Lee, Victor, Finn, Alyssa, Senger, Kate, Zarrin, Ali A., Du Pasquier, Louis, Hsu, Ellen

“…From humans to frogs, immunoglobulin class switching introduces different effector functions to antibodies through an intrachromosomal DNA recombination…”
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Immunological memory: What's in a name? by Pradeu, Thomas, Du Pasquier, Louis

“…Summary Immunological memory is one of the core topics of contemporary immunology. Yet there are many discussions about what this concept precisely means,…”
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The B7 family of immunoregulatory receptors: A comparative and evolutionary perspective by Hansen, John D., Pasquier, Louis Du, Lefranc, Marie-Paule, Lopez, Virginie, Benmansour, Abdenour, Boudinot, Pierre

“…In mammals, T cell activation requires specific recognition of the peptide–MHC complex by the TcR and co-stimulatory signals. Important co-stimulatory…”
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Dscam1 in Pancrustacean Immunity: Current Status and a Look to the Future by Armitage, Sophie A O, Kurtz, Joachim, Brites, Daniela, Dong, Yuemei, Du Pasquier, Louis, Wang, Han-Ching

“…The ( ) gene is an extraordinary example of diversity: by combining alternatively spliced exons, thousands of isoforms can be produced from just one gene. So…”
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On the origins of the adaptive immune system: novel insights from invertebrates and cold-blooded vertebrates by Kasahara, Masanori, Suzuki, Takashi, Pasquier, Louis Du

“…When and how adaptive immunity emerged is one of the fundamental questions in immunology. Accumulated evidence suggests that the key components of adaptive…”
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chicken leukocyte receptor complex encodes a primordial, activating, high-affinity IgY Fc receptor by Viertlboeck, Birgit C, Schweinsberg, Sonja, Hanczaruk, Matthias A, Schmitt, Ramona, Du Pasquier, Louis, Herberg, Friedrich W, Göbel, Thomas W

“…Fc receptors are key players of the immune system that link the fine specificity of immunoglobulins and innate effector responses. Here, we describe a…”
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Evidence for a Functional Second Thymus in Mice by Terszowski, Grzegorz, Müller, Susanna M, Bleul, Conrad C, Blum, Carmen, Schirmbeck, Reinhold, Reimann, Jörg, Pasquier, Louis Du, Amagai, Takashi, Boehm, Thomas, Rodewald, Hans-Reimer

“…The thymus organ supports the development of T cells and is located in the thorax. Here, we report the existence of a second thymus in the mouse neck, which…”
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CD96 Interaction with CD155 via Its First Ig-like Domain Is Modulated by Alternative Splicing or Mutations in Distal Ig-like Domains by Meyer, Dorothee, Seth, Sebastian, Albrecht, Jana, Maier, Michael K., Pasquier, Louis du, Ravens, Inga, Dreyer, Lutz, Burger, Renate, Gramatzki, Martin, Schwinzer, Reinhard, Kremmer, Elisabeth, Foerster, Reinhold, Bernhardt, Günter

“…The adhesion receptor CD96 (TACTILE) is a transmembrane glycoprotein possessing three extracellular immunoglobulin-like domains. Among peripheral blood cells,…”
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Heterogeneity of endothelial junctions is reflected by differential expression and specific subcellular localization of the three JAM family members by Aurrand-Lions, Michel, Johnson-Leger, Caroline, Wong, Cindy, Du Pasquier, Louis, Imhof, Beat A.

“…Endothelial cells are linked to each other through intercellular junctional complexes that regulate the barrier and fence function of the vascular wall. The…”
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Genomic analysis of immunity in a Urochordate and the emergence of the vertebrate immune system: "waiting for Godot" by Azumi, Kaoru, De Santis, Rosaria, De Tomaso, Anthony, Rigoutsos, Isidore, Yoshizaki, Fumiko, Pinto, Maria Rosaria, Marino, Rita, Shida, Kazuhito, Ikeda, Makoto, Ikeda, Masami, Arai, Masafumi, Inoue, Yasuhito, Shimizu, Toshio, Satoh, Nori, Rokhsar, Daniel S, Du Pasquier, Louis, Kasahara, Masanori, Satake, Masanobu, Nonaka, Masaru

“…Genome-wide sequence analysis in the invertebrate chordate, Ciona intestinalis, has provided a comprehensive picture of immune-related genes in an organism…”
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The fate of duplicated immunity genes in the dodecaploid Xenopus ruwenzoriensis by Du Pasquier, Louis, Wilson, Melanie, Sammut, Benedicte

“…The relatively recent dodecaploid Xenopus (X.) ruwenzoriensis (108 chromosomes) permits to catch the phenomenon of gene silencing or modification in the act…”
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Cytokine Receptor Diversity in the Lamprey Predicts the Minimal Essential Cytokine Networks of Vertebrates by Boulay, Jean-Louis, Du Pasquier, Louis, Cooper, Max D

“…The vertebrate adaptive immune systems (Agnatha and Gnathostomata) use sets of T and B lymphocyte lineages that somatically generate highly diverse repertoires…”
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The Chicken Leukocyte Receptor Complex: A Highly Diverse Multigene Family Encoding at Least Six Structurally Distinct Receptor Types by Viertlboeck, Birgit C, Habermann, Felix A, Schmitt, Ramona, Groenen, Martien A. M, Du Pasquier, Louis, Gobel, Thomas W

“…The chicken Ig-like receptors (CHIR) have been described as two Ig domain molecules with long cytoplasmic tails containing inhibitory motifs. In this study, we…”
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Long-term balancing selection for pathogen resistance maintains trans-species polymorphisms in a planktonic crustacean by Cornetti, Luca, Fields, Peter D., Du Pasquier, Louis, Ebert, Dieter

“…Balancing selection is an evolutionary process that maintains genetic polymorphisms at selected loci and strongly reduces the likelihood of allele fixation…”
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Genome-Wide Association Analysis Identifies a Genetic Basis of Infectivity in a Model Bacterial Pathogen by Andras, Jason P, Fields, Peter D, Du Pasquier, Louis, Fredericksen, Maridel, Ebert, Dieter

“…Abstract Knowledge of the genetic architecture of pathogen infectivity and host resistance is essential for a mechanistic understanding of coevolutionary…”
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Immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motifs: a quest in the past and future by Daëron, Marc, Jaeger, Sébastien, Du Pasquier, Louis, Vivier, Eric

“…Since an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motif (ITIM) was first identified in the intracytoplasmic domain of FcγRIIB, ITIMs have been found in a large…”
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