Not like Botryllus: Indiscriminate post-metamorphic fusion in a compound ascidian

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1416, 1999, Pages 241-248

  Bishop, John D D ^a   Sommerfeldt, A Dorothea ^a  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allorecognition; Botryllus; Chimera; Diplosoma listerianum; Fusion; Kin selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CHIMERA; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SIBLING; STEM CELL;

EID: 0033531335     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0628     Document Type: Article

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