Subcuticular rejection: An advanced mode of the allogeneic rejection in the compound ascidians Botrylloides simodensis and B. fuscus

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-61

  Hirose, Euichi ^a   Saito, Yasunori ^b   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^c  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c University of Tokyo   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLOIDES FUSCUS; BOTRYLLOIDES SIMODENSIS;

EID: 0031005733     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542575     Document Type: Article

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