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SUBMITTER: Voskoboynik A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3810301 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20130701 6144
Histocompatibility is the basis by which multicellular organisms of the same species distinguish self from nonself. Relatively little is known about the mechanisms underlying histocompatibility reactions in lower organisms. Botryllus schlosseri is a colonial urochordate, a sister group of vertebrates, that exhibits a genetically determined natural transplantation reaction, whereby self-recognition between colonies leads to formation of parabionts with a common vasculature, whereas rejection occu ...[more]