Exchange of skin grafts among monozygotic quadruplets in armadillos.
Skin grafting experiments, with long-term follow-ups, on three litters of armadillo quadruplets born in our laboratory have confirmed the familiar rule that grafts exchanged between monozygotic littermates are not rejected as a consequence of alloimmune reactions. A possible explanation of the striking discrepancy between the present findings and those of a previous study is uncertainty about the relationships of the previous animals, which were obtained from a commercial dealer at 10 days of age.
D000818:Animals; D001135:Armadillos / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D011247:Pregnancy; D011272:Pregnancy, Multiple; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D004490:Xenarthra / Q000502:physiology*