Behavior of hemocytes in the allorejection reaction in two compound ascidians, Botryllus scalaris and Symplegma reptans

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 188-197

  Shirae, Maki ^a   Hirose, Euichi ^b   Saito, Yasunori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOREJECTION REACTION; BLOOD CELL; CELL AGGREGATION; ISRAEL; PHAGOCYTE; PHYLOGENY;

ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLIDAE; BOTRYLLUS SCALARIS; SYMPLEGMA REPTANS;

EID: 0032755719     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542614     Document Type: Article

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