Marsupial immunology: A brighter future?

Ashman, R. B.

doi:10.1016/s0145-305x(77)80038-4

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“…In the inaugural volume of the journal Developmental and Comparative Immunology, Ashman wrote an essay that raised the hope of a “brighter future” for marsupial immunology [3]. One question that certainly existed at the time, and still does, was: do the immune systems of marsupials and monotremes resemble that of eutherians in a common mammalian way?…”

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Those other mammals: The immunoglobulins and T cell receptors of marsupials and monotremes

Miller

2010

Seminars in Immunology

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This review summarizes analyses of marsupial and monotreme immunoglobulin and T cell receptor genetics and expression published over the past decade. Analyses of recently completed whole genome sequences from the opossum and the platypus have yielded insight into the evolution of the common antigen receptor systems, as well as discovery of novel receptors that appear to have been lost in eutherian mammals. These species are also useful for investigation of the development of the immune system in organisms notable for giving birth to highly altricial young, as well as the evolution of maternal immunity through comparison of oviparous and viviparous mammals.

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