Karen G. Burnett

TL;DR: It is suggested that a more complete genomics toolbox for F. heteroclitus and related species will permit researchers to exploit the power of this model organism to rapidly advance the understanding of fundamental biological and pathological mechanisms among vertebrates, as well as ecological strategies and evolutionary processes common to all living organisms.

TL;DR: The results suggest that lysozyme is expressed in most if not all hemocytes in circulation and in peripheral tissues, suggesting that hemocytes are recruited to the site of injection early during the course of the immune response.

TL;DR: It is shown that dietary administration of Diamond V XP Yeast Culture® can protect shrimp against a decline in resistance to bacterial disease, suggesting that the changes in disease resistance did not correlate with changes in growth rate.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the activity of phenoloxidase (PO), an enzyme critical to antibacterial immune defense in crustaceans, is decreased at the low levels of hemolymph O2 and pH that occur in the tissues of blue crabs exposed to HH.

TL;DR: The lymphoid organ plays a major role in bacterial uptake and bacteriostasis in penaeid shrimp, and is quantified as the percentage of intact bacteria that could not be recovered by selective plating over the 240 min examined.