Multi-partner urochordate chimeras outperform two-partner chimerical entities

Oikos

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 315-320

  Rinkevich, Baruch ^a   Shapira, Michal ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERA; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY;

CHIMERA; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; INVERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032740255     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546746     Document Type: Article

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