Biochemistry of Barnacle Adhesion: An Updated Review

Barnacles are notorious marine fouling organisms, whose life cycle initiates with the planktonic larva, followed by the free-swimming cyprid that voluntarily explores, and searches for an appropriate site to settle and metamorphoses into a sessile adult. Within this life cycle, both the cyprid and t...

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Main Authors: Chao Liang, Jack Strickland, Zonghuang Ye, Wenjian Wu, Biru Hu, Dan Rittschof
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2019.00565/full