Possible role of a skin mucus lectin from fugu Takifugu rubripes in excluding marine bacteria from the body surface

Fisheries Science

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 455-457

  Tsutsui, Shigeyuki ^a   Nishikawa, Hidenori ^b   Mano, Nobuhiro ^b   Hirose, Hitomi ^b   Tasumi, Satoshi ^a,c   Suetake, Hiroaki ^a   Suzuki, Yuzuru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agglutination; Bacteria; Fugu; Skin mucus lectin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 33645745586     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: 14442906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-2906.2006.01172.x     Document Type: Article

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