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SUBMITTER: Buss LW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3493586 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20121108 11
Transitory fusion is an allorecognition phenotype displayed by the colonial hydroid Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus when interacting colonies share some, but not all, loci within the allorecognition gene complex (ARC). The phenotype is characterized by an initial fusion followed by subsequent cell death resulting in separation of the two incompatible colonies. We here characterize this cell death process using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and continuo ...[more]