Species specificity of barnacle settlement-inducing proteins

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 511-516

  Kato Yoshinaga, Y ^a   Nagano, M ^a   Mori, S ^a   Clare, A S ^b   Fusetani, N ^a   Matsumura, K ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibody; Barnacle; Cypris larva; Immunoblot; Marine sessile organism; Nitrocellulose membrane; Settlement; Settlement assay; Settlement inducing protein; Species specificity

Indexed keywords

POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

ADSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BARNACLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFESTATION; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BALANUS AMPHITRITE; BALANUS EBURNEUS; MEGABALANUS ROSA;

EID: 0034027283     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(00)00179-3     Document Type: Article

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