商品簡介
Thirty-one international academics and researchers contribute ten chapters reviewing current advances on fish immune defenses and offering perspectives for future research. Coverage includes fish innate immunity; adaptive immunity; the molecular organization of antibody genes; the structural and functional features of the antibody molecule; the development of antibody-producing cells and the organization and function of the system which leads to an antibody response; the discovery of the new immunoglobulin class; the characterization of teleost IGH loci; fish immune response to eukaryotic parasites, and the evasion and suppression of the immune response by such pathogens; the fish cytokine network and immune regulatory peptides coordinating innate and adaptive responses; immune-endocrine interactions in fish; morpho-functional features of leukocytes and cytokines present in fish testis; and applied aspects of manipulating fish immune defenses in aquaculture. For researchers of fish immunology, fisheries and aquaculture, as well as students of fish biology. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
