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The role of the cytochrome B and cytochrome C oxidase III genes in the immune response of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae
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| author | Janse van Rensburg, Marike |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/4275 The role of the cytochrome B and cytochrome C oxidase III genes in the immune response of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae Janse van Rensburg, Marike Cell Biology Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-89). Although South Africa is the second largest producer of abalone outside Asia, the sustainability of the industry could be threatened by infectious diseases (Troell et ai., 2006). Probiotics are increasingly being viewed as an alternative to chemical and antibiotic treatments (Balcazar et al., 2006), and have been shown to improve the health of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae (Macey and Coyne, 2005). In order to establish better health management systems, and to implement alternative therapies such as probiotics, a better understanding of how the abalone immune system functions, and specifically how it responds to stimulation, is necessary. Two genes of the electron transport system, cytochrome b and cytochrome c oxidase III, were found to be upregulated in a cDNA microarray experiment performed on haemocytes from immunestimulated abalone (Arendze-Bailey, unpublished). The current study sought to confirm these results by semi-quantitative PCR and to further elucidate the roles of these genes, and thus the electron transport system, in the abalone immune response. 2014-07-30T17:38:33Z 2014-07-30T17:38:33Z 2007 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4275 eng application/pdf Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Cell Biology Janse van Rensburg, Marike The role of the cytochrome B and cytochrome C oxidase III genes in the immune response of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | The role of the cytochrome B and cytochrome C oxidase III genes in the immune response of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae |
| title_full | The role of the cytochrome B and cytochrome C oxidase III genes in the immune response of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae |
| title_fullStr | The role of the cytochrome B and cytochrome C oxidase III genes in the immune response of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of the cytochrome B and cytochrome C oxidase III genes in the immune response of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae |
| title_short | The role of the cytochrome B and cytochrome C oxidase III genes in the immune response of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae |
| title_sort | role of the cytochrome b and cytochrome c oxidase iii genes in the immune response of the south african abalone haliotis midae |
| topic | Cell Biology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4275 |
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