Cloning and characterization of a candidate nutritive glycoprotein from the albumen gland of the freshwater snail, Helisoma duryi (Mollusca: Pulmonata)

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-92

  Mukai, Spencer T ^a   Hoque, Tafazzal ^a   Morishita, Fumihiro ^b   Saleuddin, A Saber M ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Egg production; Glycosylation

Indexed keywords

BASOMMATOPHORA; BIOMPHALARIA; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; GASTROPODA; HELISOMA; HELISOMA DURYI; MOLLUSCA; PULMONATA;

EID: 1642385450     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2004.tb00144.x     Document Type: Article

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