A Model for the Evolution of the Mammalian T-cell Receptor  /  and   Loci Based on Evidence from the Duckbill Platypus

A Second TCR  Locus in Galliformes Uses Antibody-like V Domains: Insight into the Evolution of TCR  and TCR  Genes in Tetrapods

(2012) Z. E. Parra et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Platypus TCR μ Provides Insight into the Origins and Evolution of a Uniquely Mammalian TCR Locus

(2011) Xinxin Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

A Case Of Convergence: Why Did a Simple Alternative to Canonical Antibodies Arise in Sharks and Camels?

(2011) Martin F. Flajnik et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The dynamic TCRδ: TCRδ chains in the amphibian Xenopus tropicalis utilize antibody-like V genes

(2010) Zuly E. Parra et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Evolutionarily Conserved TCR Binding Sites, Identification of T Cells in Primary Lymphoid Tissues, and Surprising Trans-Rearrangements in Nurse Shark

(2010) M. F. Criscitiello et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

γδ T Cells and the Lymphoid Stress-Surveillance Response

(2009) Adrian C. Hayday   IMMUNITY

Origin and evolution of the adaptive immune system: genetic events and selective pressures

(2009) Martin F. Flajnik et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Characterization of arrangement and expression of the T cell receptor   locus in the sandbar shark

(2009) H. Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative genomic analysis and evolution of the T cell receptor loci in the opossum Monodelphis domestica.

(2008) Zuly E Parra et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Functional adaptive diversity of the Atlantic salmon T-cell receptor gamma locus

(2008) Ryosuke Yazawa et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution

(2008) Wesley C. Warren et al.   NATURE