Model Systems of Invertebrate Allorecognition
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Model Systems of Invertebrate Allorecognition
Nearly all colonial marine invertebrates are capable of allorecognition--the ability to distinguish between self and genetically distinct members of the same species. When two or more colonies grow into contact, they either reject each other and compete for the contested space or fuse and form a single, chimeric colony. The specificity of this response is conferred by genetic systems that restr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.11.061