MHC genes in Invertebrates: The Echinodermata

Abstract

The MHC is a set of genes that codes for cell surface proteins essential for the acquired immune system to recognize foreign molecules in vertebrates and MHC II gene was described in Echinodermata for the first time. For the present time, MHC Class I gene was not found in a significant manner so for concluding the existence of MHC I gene in Echinodermata, further studies will be necessarily done.