A collection of horseshoe crabs (Chelicerata: Xiphosura) in the National Museum, Prague (Czech Republic) and a review of their immunological importance

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.arages.de/aramit/pdf/Heft_49/AM49_01_09.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.arages.de/aramit/pdf/Heft_49/AM49_01_09.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5431/aramit4901" target="_blank" >10.5431/aramit4901</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A collection of horseshoe crabs (Chelicerata: Xiphosura) in the National Museum, Prague (Czech Republic) and a review of their immunological importance

Original language description

The zoological collection of the National Museum, Prague (NMP) contains spirit (juvenile) as well as dry (mostly adult) specimens of horseshoe crabs (Xiphosura). Living horseshoe crabs are of immunological importance due to clotting agents present in their hemolymph. Here we summarize basic data about the mechanism of the immune system of these marine animals and its use in practice – the Limulus Amebocyte Lysate test – including the laboratory assays and handling with the animals. In the NMP collection, 82 specimens (16 dry and 66 spirit) of all four currently recognised living species of horseshoe crabs are present. They were collected in Indonesia, USA and Vietnam in 1872–1998; Limulus polyphemus from the USA is the most numerous species in the NMP. The collection contains no type specimens but three historical mounted ontogenetic series are present. The largest part of the horseshoe crab collection is 55 spirit specimens from the collection of Václav Frič (1839–1916) whose preparations were intended mostly for educational purposes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Arachnologische Mitteilungen

ISSN

1018-4171

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

49

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1-9

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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