Mucus antigenicity in sea anemones and corals

✍ Scribed by Roger Lubbock

• Book ID: 104615184
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 262 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-5141
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00019132

✦ Synopsis

The antigenicities of external mucus from the sea anemones Stoichactis haddoni, Radianthus ritteri and Gyrostoma hertwigi and from the coral Trachvphyllia geoffrovi were compared . Marked differences were found between species but not within species . The differences suggested that mucus composition might be species specific, and hence that it might be one of the factors used by sea anemones and corals in the recognition of foreign anthozoan species .