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Modified Jerne's natural-selection account by proposing selection and proliferation of lymphocyte clones with pre-existing specificity, including implications for tolerance and immune memory.
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The record is Burnet's sole-author 1957 Australian Journal of Science paper. It is a theoretical proposal that builds on Jerne and contemporary ideas; later experimental support, Burnet's 1959 book and modern B- and T-cell mechanisms remain separate.
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- WEHI repository record for Burnet clonal-selection paper
- Nature Immunology reprint and history of clonal selection
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F. M. Burnet
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Burnet: clonal selection theory of antibody production
Modified Jerne's natural-selection account by proposing selection and proliferation of lymphocyte clones with pre-existing specificity, including implications for tolerance and immune memory.
Scientific scope
The record is Burnet's sole-author 1957 Australian Journal of Science paper. It is a theoretical proposal that builds on Jerne and contemporary ideas; later experimental support, Burnet's 1959 book and modern B- and T-cell mechanisms remain separate.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
F. M. Burnet
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.