Bacterial agglutinins in the skin mucus of Japanese eel

Fish Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 73-77

  Kosuga, Yuko ^a   Mano, Nobuhiro ^b   Hirose, Hitomi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial agglutinin; Japanese eel; Lectin; Skin mucus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034407825     PISSN: 0388788X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3147/jsfp.35.73     Document Type: Article

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