Immunologic Phenomena of Cold-blooded Animals

Abstract

Studies on immunologic phenomena in cold-blooded animals has not been so much: described as that in higher vertebrates. In this paper the authors translated and introduced the references (Sience,141,543-547,1963) about the symposium on immunologic phenomena in cold-blooded vertebrates, held at the recent meeting of the Federation of the American Society for Experimental Microbiology, April 1963, included both reviews and new informations on the behavior of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles. The major emphasis was centered on immunological comparisons. and regulatory or reaction-controlling factors with referances to phylogenetic development.
Additionary the authors made short review and comparisons from the point of their own observations on the immunologic phenomena of American craw-fish, Cambarus clarkii.