Lampreys give clues to evolution of immune system

Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 12:01 in Biology & Nature

Biologists have discovered that primitive, predatory lampreys have structures within their gills that play the same role as the thymus, the organ where immune cells called T cells develop in mammals, birds and fish...

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