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Clonal Selection

Clonal Selection is a fundamental immunological theory within cellular immunology and adaptive immunity that explains how antigen-specific lymphocytes are selectively activated, proliferated, and differentiated into effector cells upon encountering their cognate antigen, thereby forming the basis of immunological specificity and memory.

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Learning and optimization using the clonal selection principle

Leandro Nunes de Castro, Fernando J. Von Zuben · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 2002 · 2.2K citations

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Cytological Demonstration of the Clonal Nature of Spleen Colonies Derived from Transplanted Mouse Marrow Cells

Andrew Becker, E. A. McCulloch, J. E. Till · Nature · 1963 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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Three clonal types of keratinocyte with different capacities for multiplication.

Yann Barrandon, H Green · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1987 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Intraclonal generation of antibody mutants in germinal centres

Joshy Jacob, Garnett Kelsoe, Klaus Rajewsky · Nature · 1991 · 1.1K citations

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Mechanism of antigen-driven selection in germinal centres

Y.-J. Liu, D. Joshua, Gwyn T. Williams et al. · Nature · 1989 · 1.1K citations

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    Licheng Jiao

    Xidian University, China

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    David A. Price

    Cardiff University, United Kingdom

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    Anton W. Langerak

    Erasmus MC, Netherlands

    10 publications · 632 citations

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    António Coutinho

    Institut Pasteur, France

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    Thierry Mora

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

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  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, United States

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    Cambridge, United States

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    Bethesda, United States

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    Paris, France

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    Paris, France

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    109 publications

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  6. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

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    134 publications

    19.6K citations

  7. Institut Pasteur

    Paris, France

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    Bethesda, United States

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