Open questions: knowing who’s who in multicellular animals is not always as simple as we imagine
Open Access
- 15 October 2018
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Biology
- Vol. 16 (1) , 115
Abstract
The ability of certain tumor cells of mammals and molluscs to spread from the original host to others reopens the question of distinguishing self from non-self. It is part of a wider phenomenon of cellular parasitism and cell chimerism including germ cells.Keywords
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