Hemocyanins and the immune response: Defense against the dark arts

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 662-665

  Terwilliger, Nora B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; CANCER MAGISTER; CARCINUS MAENAS; CHELICERATA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38749092654     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icm039     Document Type: Article

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