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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Rosa SF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2921677 | biostudies-other | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Current biology : CB 20100527 12
Allorecognition, the ability to discriminate between self and nonself, is ubiquitous among colonial metazoans and widespread among aclonal taxa. Genetic models for the study of allorecognition have been developed in the jawed vertebrates, invertebrate chordate Botryllus, and cnidarian Hydractinia. In Botryllus, two genes contribute to the histocompatibility response, FuHC and fester. In the cnidarian Hydractinia, one of the two known allorecognition loci, alr2, has been isolated, and a second li ...[more]