• Cold-blooded vertebrates evolved organized germinal center-like structures 

      Shibasaki, Yasuhiro; Afanasyev, Sergey; Fernández-Montero, Alvaro; Ding, Yang; Watanabe, Shota; Takizawa, Fumio; Lamas, Jesús; Fontenla-Iglesias, Francisco; Leiro, José Manuel; Krasnov, Aleksei; Boudinot, Pierre; Sunyer, J Oriol (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Germinal centers (GCs) or analogous secondary lymphoid microstructures (SLMs) are thought to have evolved in endothermic species. However, living representatives of their ectothermic ancestors can mount potent secondary ...