Separation and analysis of different types of nematocysts from Cyanea capillata (L.) medusae

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 645, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 203-212

  Wiebring, Annika ^a,b   Helmholz, Heike ^a   Lassen, Stephan ^a   Prange, Andreas ^a   Jarms, Gerhard ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cnidom; Jellyfish; LMPC; Mass spectrometry; Protein pattern; Sting; Venom

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTORS; ALLERGIC REACTIONS; BALTIC SEA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FISH SPECIES; JELLYFISH; LASER MICRODISSECTIONS; LENGTH-TO-WIDTH RATIO; MALDI TOF MS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION; MEDUSAE; NORTH SEA; PROTEIN PATTERNS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

COMPETITION; DESORPTION; ECOSYSTEMS; POLYACRYLATES; PROTEINS; TOXICITY;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; IONIZATION; JELLYFISH; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEMATODE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SKIN; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TOXICITY; VENOM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA;

CYANEA CAPILLATA; HEXAPODA; HYDROIDA; INVERTEBRATA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 77952011385     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0227-6     Document Type: Article

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