A family of unusual immunoglobulin superfamily genes in an invertebrate histocompatibility complex
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2207374119
Abstract: Most colonial marine invertebrates are capable of allorecognition, the ability to distinguish between themselves and conspecifics. One long-standing question is whether invertebrate allorecognition genes are homologous to vertebrate histocompatibility genes. In the cnidarian Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus,… read more here.
Keywords: invertebrate histocompatibility; family; set; allorecognition ... See more keywords