Abstract: Abstract Data are presented from a study to determine how salinity may modulate the interactions between an opportunistic bacterial pathogen Listonella anguillarum and the immune system of a bivalve host, the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis. Oysters were acclimated to three salinity regimes (32, 25 and 16‰, at 15°C) for 7 days within the laboratory and were then inoculated with a sub-lethal dose of live L. anguillarum . Forty-eight hours after inoculation measurements were made of the changes in haemocyte composition, haemolymph hydrogen ...
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Microbiology
Food science