Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Vertebrate immunity
  • Benefits of antigenic variation
  • Molecular processes
  • Specificity and cross-reactivity
  • Generative mechanisms
  • Individual interactions
  • Immunodominance within hosts
  • Parasite escape within hosts
  • Population consequences
  • Genetic variability of hosts
  • Immunological variability of hosts
  • Genetic structure of parasite populations
  • Studying evolution
  • Classifications by antigenicity and phylogeny
  • Experimental evolution: foot-and-mouth disease virus
  • Experimental evolution: influenza
  • Experimental evolution: CTL escape
  • Measuring selection with population samples
  • Recap of some interesting problems.