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Hydractinia allodeterminant alr1 resides in an immunoglobulin superfamily-like gene complex.
Current biology : CB - 22 Jun 2010
Rosa Sabrina F P, Powell Anahid E, Rosengarten Rafael D, Nicotra Matthew L, Moreno Maria A, Grimwood Jane, Lakkis Fadi G, Dellaporta Stephen L, Buss Leo W
Abstract excerpt
Allorecognition, the ability to discriminate between self and nonself, is ubiquitous among colonial metazoans and widespread among aclonal taxa. Genetic models for the study of allorecognition have been developed in the jawed vertebrates, invertebrate chordate Botryllus, and cnidarian Hydractinia. In Botryllus, two genes contribute to the histocompatibility response, FuHC and fester. In the cnidarian Hydractinia,...
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