Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Vertebrate immunity
  • 3. Benefits of antigenic variation
  • 4. Specificity and cross-reactivity
  • 5. Generative mechanisms
  • 6. Immunodominance within hosts
  • 7. Parasite escape within hosts
  • 8. Genetic variability of hosts
  • 9. Immunological variability of hosts
  • 10. Genetic structure of parasite populations
  • 11. Classifications by antigenicity and phylogeny
  • 12. Experimental evolution : foot-and-mouth disease virus
  • 13. Experimental evolution : influenza
  • 14. Experimental evolution : CTL escape
  • 15. Measuring selection with population samples
  • 16. Recap of some interesting problems.