Evolution of allorecognition in botryllid ascidians inferred from a molecular phylogeny

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 746-756

  Cohen, C Sarah ^a,c   Saito, Yasunori ^b   Weissman, Irving L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allorecognition; Ascidian; Behavioral evolution; Histocompatibility; Space competition

Indexed keywords

ALLORECOGNITION; CLONAL ORGANISM; EVOLUTION; KIN RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION SYSTEM; SPACE COMPETITION;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLIDAE; CEPHALOCHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0031901845     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb03699.x     Document Type: Article

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