Humoral immunity in long-lived arthropods

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-64

  Armstrong, Peter B ^a,b   Melchior, Ralph ^a,b   Quigley, James P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Limulin; Limulus; Pentraxin; Plasma lectin; 2 Macroglobulin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000641143     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-1910(95)00082-8     Document Type: Article

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