Cloning and expression of an actin gene in the haemocytes of pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata, Gould 1850)

Marine Genomics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 63-67

  Wang, Zhongliang ^a,b,c,d   Wu, Zaohe ^c,d   Jian, Jichang ^c,d   Lu, Yishan ^c,d  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c GUANGDONG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Guangdong Key Laboratory of Control for Diseases of Aquatic Economic Animals   (China)

Author keywords

Bacterial challenge; Homological cloning; RACE; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PINCTADA; PINCTADA FUCATA; VERTEBRATA; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

EID: 52049112341     PISSN: 18747787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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