A simple protocol for extracting hemocytes from wild caterpillars

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 69, 2012, Pages

  Stoepler, Teresa M ^a   Castillo, Julio C ^a   Lill, John T ^a   Eleftherianos, Ioannis ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Biology; Cellular biology; Cellular immunity; Ecoimmunology; Entomology; Euclea delphinii; Hemocytes; Hemolymph; Immunology; Issue 69; Lepidoptera; Lithacodes fasciola; Non model insects; Wild caterpillars; Zoology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869441881     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4173     Document Type: Article

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