Transplantation of Fu/HC-incompatible zooids in Botryllus schlosseri results in chimerism

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 98-106

  Rinkevich, Baruch ^a   Weissman, Irving L ^b,c   De Tomaso, Anthony W ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI; INVERTEBRATA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0032191787     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542816     Document Type: Article

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