Immunogenetics special issue 2021: Fish Immunology

The Fish Barcode of Life (FISH-BOL) special issue.

The fascinating diversity of fishes coupled with their broad socio-economic importance to humanity has made them a taxonomically well-studied group. Yet despite the current recognition of some 30,000 species and the challenging identification of already known species, species are routinely discovered. Accurately assessing species diversity remains a major challenge for systematic ichthyology, p...

Special Issue

Fish immunology

Immune systems protect animals from threats by parasites, bacteria and viruses. Most of what we know today about the composition, function and regulation of the two fundamental branches of the immune system — innate immunity and adaptive immunity — comes from studies on mice and humans. However, recently there has been an increased interest in fish immunology for several reasons. For evolutiona...

IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics database: a high-quality information system for comparative immunogenetics and immunology.

IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics database (http://imgt.cines.fr), is a high quality integrated information system specializing in Immunoglobulins (IG), T cell Receptors (TR) and Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) of human and other vertebrates, created in 1989, by LIGM, at the Université Montpellier II, CNRS, Montpellier, France. IMGT provides a common access to standardized data, whi...

Special Issue: Viruses Infecting Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles

Although viruses infecting and affecting humans are the focus of considerable research effort, viruses that target other animal species, including cold-blooded vertebrates, are receiving increased attention. In part this reflects the interests of comparative virologists, but increasingly it is based on the impact that many viruses have on ecologically and commercially important animals. Frogs a...