A lectin of a non-invasive apple snail as an egg defense against predation alters the rat gut morphophysiology

Santiago Ituarte; Tabata Romina Brola; Patricia Elena Fernández; Huawei Mu; Jian-Wen Qiu; Horacio Heras; Marcos Sebastián Dreon

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0198361

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A lectin of a non-invasive apple snail as an egg defense against predation alters the rat gut morphophysiology

Santiago Ituarte ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Santiago Ituarte, Tabata Romina Brola

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de La Plata (INIBIOLP), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)–CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
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Tabata Romina Brola ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Santiago Ituarte, Tabata Romina Brola

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de La Plata (INIBIOLP), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)–CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
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Patricia Elena Fernández,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Instituto de Patología B. Epstein, Cátedra de Patología General Veterinaria, Facultad Ciencias Veterinarias, UNLP, La Plata, Argentina
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Huawei Mu,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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Jian-Wen Qiu,

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
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Horacio Heras,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de La Plata (INIBIOLP), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)–CONICET, La Plata, Argentina, Cátedra de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, UNLP, La Plata, Argentina
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Marcos Sebastián Dreon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: msdreon@gmail.com

Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de La Plata (INIBIOLP), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)–CONICET, La Plata, Argentina, Cátedra de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, UNLP, La Plata, Argentina
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A lectin of a non-invasive apple snail as an egg defense against predation alters the rat gut morphophysiology

Santiago Ituarte,
Tabata Romina Brola,
Patricia Elena Fernández,
Huawei Mu,
Jian-Wen Qiu,
Horacio Heras,
Marcos Sebastián Dreon

Published: June 1, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198361

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