Weiss RA. Open questions: knowing who's who in multicellular animals is not always as simple as we imagine.
BMC Biol 2018;
16:115. [PMID:
30322384 PMCID:
PMC6190548 DOI:
10.1186/s12915-018-0582-8]
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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.
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