Pattern of settlement and natural chimerism in the colonial urochordate Botryllus schlosseri

Genetica

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-58

  Ben Shlomo, Rachel ^a   Motro, Uzi ^b   Paz, Guy ^c   Rinkevich, Baruch ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ascidians; Botryllus schlosser; Chimera; Kin aggregation; Settlement

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION; UROCHORDATA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHIMERISM; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLUS; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI;

EID: 36448945436     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-007-9148-3     Document Type: Article

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