Complement activity in the egg cytosol of zebrafish Danio rerio: evidence for the defense role of maternal complement components.
Most fish embryos that develop externally are exposed to an environment full of microbes. How they survive microbial attacks are not understood to date. Here we demonstrated that the egg cytosol prepared from the newly fertilized eggs of zebrafish Danio rerio is capable of killing the Gram-negative...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2008
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/32ecb2a024604f56a1ac9896eb09b40f |
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