Speculations on the Relationships of Two Botryllus Allo-Recognition Reactions---Colony Specificity and Resorption---To Vertebrate Histocompatibility

Irving L. Weissman, Virginia Scofield, Yasunori Saito, Heather Boyd, Baruch Rinkevich

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Abstract

The objective of this essay is to consider functions of the vertebrate major histocompatibility complex (MHC), especially in comparison to allorecognition in colonial tunicates. Elsewhere Burnet (1971), and our group (Scofield et al. 1982b) have provided some theoretical and experimental bases for making such a comparison.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInvertebrate Historecognition
EditorsRichard K. Grosberg, Dennis Hedgecock, Keith Nelson
Place of PublicationBoston, MA
PublisherSpringer US
Pages67-78
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)978-1-4613-1053-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1988
Externally publishedYes

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