Epithelial immunity in a marine invertebrate: A cytolytic activity from a cuticular secretion of the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus

Marine Biology

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1165-1171

  Harrington, John M ^a,b   Leippe, Matthias ^b,c   Armstrong, Peter B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFOULING AGENT; BIOCHEMISTRY; COLONIZATION; CRAB; CUTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EPIBIONT; IMMUNITY; SEAWATER; SECRETION;

INVERTEBRATA; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 39649123479     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-007-0888-5     Document Type: Article

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