Phagocytosis mediates specificity in the immune defence of an invertebrate, the woodlouse Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda)

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1151-1155

  Roth, Olivia ^a,b   Kurtz, Joachim ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive immunity; Bacteria; Immune defence; Immune priming; Innate immunity; Invertebrate; Phagocytosis; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IN VITRO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INVERTEBRATE; ISOPODA; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PORCELLIO SCABER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRUSTACEA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; PORCELLIO SCABER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 68449099764     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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