Bi-versus multichimerism in colonial urochordates: A hypothesis for links between natural tissue transplantation, allogenetics and evolutionary ecology

Experimental and Clinical Immunogenetics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 61-69

  Rinkevich, Baruch ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alloimmunity; Chimeras; Evolution of immunity; Invertebrate immunity; Tissue transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ASCIDIACEA; CHIMERA; CHORDATA; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0030477730     PISSN: 02549670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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