Article
Cell Communication-mediated Nonself-Recognition and -Intolerance in Representative Species of the Animal Kingdom.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Aug 2020
Mueller Werner A, Rinkevich Baruch
Abstract excerpt
Why has histo-incompatibility arisen in evolution and can cause self-intolerance? Compatible/incompatible reactions following natural contacts between genetically-different (allogeneic) colonies of marine organisms have inspired the conception that self-nonself discrimination has developed to reduce invasion threats by migratory foreign germ/somatic stem cells, in extreme cases resulting in conquest of the whole...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
