Allogeneic resorption in colonial protochordates: consequences of nonself recognition.

doi:10.1016/0145-305x(92)90002-t

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Allogeneic resorption in colonial protochordates: consequences of nonself recognition.

Developmental and comparative immunology - 1 Jan 2000

Rinkevich B, Weissman I L

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Colonial tunicates (protochordates of the subfamily Botryllinae) have the property of forming natural chimeras in the wild or in the laboratory with other members of the same species if both individuals share at least one allele at a single highly polymorphic locus, termed the fusibility/histocom...

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Alleles
Animals
Chimera
Immunity
Transplantation, Homologous
Urochordata

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