Abstract
As long as there are useful invertebrates like earthworms, oysters, or honey bees to be protected, and others like tapeworms, slugs, and mosquitoes to be destroyed, there will be a utilitarian justification for studying invertebrate pathology and whatever is equivalent in them to what we study in vertebrates as immunology. Nevertheless, I fancy that most contributors to this symposium are interested mainly in what, if any, light such studies of invertebrates can throw on the evolution of the processes of inflammation and immunity as we see them in man and the experimental mammals of the laboratory. Since Darwin, much of the “fun” of biological research has been to interpret what directly interests one in evolutionary terms. This introduction is stimulated almost wholly by my interest in the phylogeny of the immune responses and will touch only on findings that appear to be relevant to that theme.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Burnet, F. M., 1971, “Self-recognition” in colonial marine forms and flowering plants in relation to the evolution of immunity, Nature 232:230–235.
Curtis, A. S. G., 1972, Adhesive interactions between organisms, in: Functional Aspects of Parasite Surfaces, Symposia of the British Society of Parasitology, Vol 10, pp. 1–21 ( Angela E. R. Taylor and R. Muller, eds.), Blackwell Science Publishers, Oxford.
Curtis, A. S. G., and Van de Vyver, G., 1971, The control of cell adhesion in a morphogenetic system, J. Embryol. Exp. Morphol 26: 295–312.
Knox, R. B., and Heslop-Harrison, J., 1971, Pollen-wall proteins: localization of antigenic and allergenic proteins in the pollen-grain walls of Ambrosia spp. (ragweeds), Cytobios 4: 49–54.
Lewis, D., 1952, Serological reactions of pollen incompatibility substances, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B140: 127–135.
Linskens, H. F., 1961, Biochemical aspects of incompatibility, Advances in Botany 2: 1500–1503.
Marchalonis, J. J., and Edelman, G. M., 1968, Isolation and characterization of a hemagglutinin from Limulus polyphemus, J. Mol. Biol 32: 453–465.
McKay, D., Jenkin, C. R., and Rowley, D., 1969, Immunity in the invertebrates. I. Studies on the naturally occurring hemagglutinins in the fluid from invertebrates, Australian J. Exp. Biol. Med. Sci. 47: 125–134.
Moscona, A. A., 1968, Cell aggregation: properties of specific cell-ligands and their role in the formation of multicellular systems, Develop. Biol. 18: 250–277.
Mukai, H., 1967, Experimental alteration of fusibility in compound ascidians, Sci. Rep. Tokyo Kyoiku Daigaku, B13: 51–73.
Oka, H., 1970, Colony specificity in compound ascidians, in: Profiles of Japanese Science and Scientists ( H. Yukawa, ed.), pp. 195–206, Kodansha, Tokyo.
Pollara, B., Benson, S., and Bridges, R. A., 1968, Erythrocyte agglutinins in the sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus, Federation Proc 27: 492 (Abstract).
Sabbadin, A., 1971, Self- and cross-fertilization in the compound ascidian Botryllus schlössen, Develop. Biol 24: 319–391.
Salt, G., 1965, Experimental studies in insect parasitism. XIII. The hemocytic reaction of a caterpillar to eggs of its habitual parasite, Proc. Roy. Soc. (London), B162: 303–318.
Salt, G., 1970, The cellular defence reactions of insects, Cambridge Monographs in Experimental Biology, No. 16., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Theodor, J. L., 1966, Les greffes chez les Gorgones: étude d’un système de reconnaissance de tissus, Bull. Inst. Océanog. 66:No. 1374.
Theodor, J. L., 1970, Distinction between “self” and “not-self” in lower invertebrates, Nature 227: 690–692.
Townsend, C. E., 1971, Advances in the study of incompatibility, in: Pollen: Development and Physiology ( J. Heslop-Harrison, ed.), pp. 281–309, Butterworths Science Publishers, London.
Wilson, E. V., 1907, On some phenomena of coalescence and regeneration in sponges, J. Exp. Zool. 5: 245–258.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1974 Plenum Press, New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Burnet, F.M. (1974). Invertebrate Precursors to Immune Responses. In: Hanna, M.G., Cooper, E.L. (eds) Contemporary Topics in Immunobiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3048-6_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3048-6_2
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4684-3050-9
Online ISBN: 978-1-4684-3048-6
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive