Environmental split between germ cell parasitism and somatic cell synergism in chimeras of a colonial urochordate

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 3531-3536

  Rinkevich, Baruch ^a   Yankelevich, Irena ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Botryllus; Chimerism; Fusion rejection; Green beard allelism; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL LINEAGE; CHIMERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TEMPERATURE; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; CELL FUSION; CELL LINEAGE; CHIMERA; GENOTYPE; GERM CELLS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; UROCHORDATA;

BOTRYLLUS; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI;

EID: 6344223402     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01184     Document Type: Article

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