title: The primordial thymus: everything you need under one roof.
abstract: Lymphocytes normally develop within anatomically distinct tissues. In Cell Reports, Swann et al. (2014) reconstruct the primordial thymus and suggest that it was a site of combined T and B lymphopoiesis before evolving into an organ specialized for T cell production.
authors.affiliation: School of Immunity and Infection, MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. Electronic address: g.anderson@bham.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Graham
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.affiliation: School of Immunity and Infection, MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
authors.forename: Song
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baik
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005136:Eye Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D051858:Forkhead Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D005136:Eye Proteins; D051858:Forkhead Transcription Factors