Primitive vertebrates with an adaptive immune system

Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 11:20 in Biology & Nature

A key organ found in our adaptive immune system is more common than previously assumed: Researchers demonstrate the presence of thymus-like structures in the primitive lamprey.

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