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• High-throughput sequencing technologies applied to decipher adaptive immune response dynamics in vertebrates. • Computational tools have been developed to analyse the complex repertoire data generated by high-throughput sequencing. • Analysis of adaptive immune repertoire in non-model animals provides new insights in the evolution of adaptive immune system. The adaptive immune response in jawed vertebrates relies on the huge diversity and specificity of the B cell and T cell antigen receptors, the immunoglobulins (IG) or antibodies and the T cell receptors (TR), respectively. The high level of diversity has represented a barrier to a comprehensive analysis of the adaptive immune response before the emergence of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies. The size and complexity of HTS data requires the generation of novel computational and analytical approaches, which are transforming how the adaptive immune responses are deciphered to understand the clonal dynamics and properties of antigen-specific B and T cells in response to different kind of antigens. This exciting and rapidly evolving field is not only impacting human and clinical immunology but also comparative immunology. We are now closer to understanding the evolution of adaptive immune response in jawed vertebrates. This review provides an overview about classical and current strategies developed to assess the IG/TR diversity and their applications in basic and clinical immunology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In History, Memory, Performance, David Dean, Yana Meerzon, and Kathryn Prince draw together a diverse collection of scholarship to examine how history and performance problematize and enrich one another. Though there are recurrent theoretical threads, the collection is wide-ranging and eclectic–moving from nineteenth-century Russia to modern-day Australia-encouraging us to revisit and rethink this timely topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]