Smelly feet are not always a bad thing: The relationship between cyprid footprint protein and the barnacle settlement pheromone

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 423-425

  Dreanno, Catherine ^a   Kirby, Richard R ^b   Clare, Anthony S ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arthropod; Balanus amphitrite; Barnacle; Cyprid; Larval settlement; Settlement inducing protein complex

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE; PHEROMONE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

CRUSTACEAN; FOOTPRINT; LARVA; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN;

ADHESION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BARNACLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; HABITAT SELECTION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTHROPODA; BALANUS AMPHITRITE; CYPRIDIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; THORACICA;

EID: 33748646980     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0503     Document Type: Article

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