Inferring the “Primordial Immune Complex”: Origins of MHC Class I and Antigen Receptors Revealed by Comparative Genomics

Identification of Two Nonrearranging IgSF Genes in Chicken Reveals a Novel Family of Putative Remnants of an Antigen Receptor Precursor

(2019) Yanbin Fu et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Unfinished Business: Evolution of the MHC and the Adaptive Immune System of Jawed Vertebrates

(2018) Jim Kaufman   Annual Review of Immunology

Discovery and Analysis of Invertebrate IgVJ-C2 Structure from Amphioxus Provides Insight into the Evolution of the Ig Superfamily

(2018) Rong Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Distinct MHC class I-like interacting invariant T cell lineage at the forefront of mycobacterial immunity uncovered inXenopus

(2018) Eva-Stina Edholm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ancient features of the MHC class II presentation pathway, and a model for the possible origin of MHC molecules

(2018) Johannes M. Dijkstra et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

The UT family of MHC class I loci unique to non-eutherian mammals has limited polymorphism and tissue specific patterns of expression in the opossum

(2016) Katina V. Krasnec et al.   BMC IMMUNOLOGY

Evolution of innate-like T cells and their selection by MHC class I-like molecules

(2016) Eva-Stina Edholm et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

The CD1 family: serving lipid antigens to T cells since the Mesozoic era

(2016) Dirk M. Zajonc   IMMUNOGENETICS

Location, location, location: the evolutionary history of CD1 genes and the NKR-P1/ligand systems

(2016) Sally L. Rogers et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

Genome evolution in the allotetraploid frog Xenopus laevis

(2016) Adam M. Session et al.   NATURE

Brief review of the chicken Major Histocompatibility Complex: the genes, their distribution on chromosome 16, and their contributions to disease resistance

(2016) Marcia M. Miller et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

Alternative haplotypes of antigen processing genes in zebrafish diverged early in vertebrate evolution

(2016) Sean C. McConnell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Analysis of the reptile CD1 genes: evolutionary implications

(2015) Zhi Yang et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

Co-evolution with chicken class I genes

(2015) Jim Kaufman   IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Coevolution of MHC genes (LMP/TAP/class Ia, NKT-class Ib, NKp30-B7H6): lessons from cold-blooded vertebrates

(2015) Yuko Ohta et al.   IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Unusual evolutionary conservation and further species-specific adaptations of a large family of nonclassical MHC class Ib genes across different degrees of genome ploidy in the amphibian subfamily Xenopodinae

(2014) Eva-Stina Edholm et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

The Proto-MHC of Placozoans, a Region Specialized in Cellular Stress and Ubiquitination/Proteasome Pathways

(2014) Jaanus Suurväli et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Homoeologous chromosomes of Xenopus laevis are highly conserved after whole-genome duplication

(2013) Y Uno et al.   HEREDITY

Nonclassical MHC class I-dependent invariant T cells are evolutionarily conserved and prominent from early development in amphibians

(2013) E.-S. Edholm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of the B7 family: co-evolution of B7H6 and NKp30, identification of a new B7 family member, B7H7, and of B7's historical relationship with the MHC

(2012) Martin F. Flajnik et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

The invention of lymphocytes

(2011) Ellen Hsu   CURRENT OPINION IN IMMUNOLOGY

Expansion and diversification of the signaling capabilities of the CD2/SLAM family in Xenopodinae amphibians

(2011) Sergey V. Guselnikov et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

Primordial Linkage of  2-Microglobulin to the MHC

(2011) Y. Ohta et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Whole-Genome Duplications Spurred the Functional Diversification of the Globin Gene Superfamily in Vertebrates

(2011) Federico G. Hoffmann et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeny, genomic organization and expression of λ and κ immunoglobulin light chain genes in a reptile, Anolis carolinensis

(2010) Qian Wu et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

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

Raising the NKT cell family

(2010) Dale I Godfrey et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

The Genome of the Western Clawed Frog Xenopus tropicalis

(2010) U. Hellsten et al.   SCIENCE

Diversity of the FcR- and KIR-related genes in an amphibian Xenopus

(2009) Sergey et al.   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Dichotomous Haplotypic Lineages of the Immunoproteasome Subunit Genes, PSMB8 and PSMB10, in the MHC Class I Region of a Teleost Medaka, Oryzias latipes

(2009) K. Tsukamoto et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

The Xenopus FcR family demonstrates continually high diversification of paired receptors in vertebrate evolution

(2008) Sergey V Guselnikov et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolution of major histocompatibility complex by “en bloc” duplication before mammalian radiation

(2008) Elodie Darbo et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS