Relationship of amebocytes and terrestrial elements to adult shell deposition in eastern oysters.
From: Journal of Shellfish Research
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Date: 8/1/2004
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Author: Fisher, William S.
ABSTRACT Freshwater runoff contains terrestrial elements from geologic deposits that may be vital to survival of eastern oysters Crassostrea virginica, a factor that could account for their distribution near terrestrial watersheds. Some of these elements are accumulated in granules of oyster amebocytes, which are highly mobile, diapedetic cells with widely-recognized roles in oyster defense and nutrition. Amebocytes are known to discharge antimicrobial substances from membrane-lined ...
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