Virginia Brockton

University of St Andrews — United Kingdom

Immunology and Microbiology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities(8), Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms(8), Aquaculture disease management and microbiota(5), Echinoderm biology and ecology(4), Marine and coastal plant biology(1)

Publications8 total

Localization and diversity of 185/333 proteins from the purple sea urchin – unexpected protein-size range and protein expression in a new coelomocyte type
Journal of Cell Science·2008· 78 cited
Crustin expression following bacterial injection and temperature change in the shore crab, Carcinus maenas
Developmental & Comparative Immunology·2008· 42 cited
Distinctive expression patterns of 185/333 genes in the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus: an unexpectedly diverse family of transcripts in response to LPS, β-1,3-glucan, and dsRNA
BMC Molecular Biology·2007· 89 citedOpen Access
The immune gene repertoire encoded in the purple sea urchin genome
Developmental Biology·2006· 610 cited
Gene characterisation, isoforms and recombinant expression of carcinin, an antibacterial protein from the shore crab, Carcinus maenas
Molecular Immunology·2006· 66 cited
The sea urchin immune system
Invertebrate survival journal·2006· 134 citedOpen Access
Changes in immune gene expression and resistance to bacterial infection in lobster (Homarus gammarus) post-larval stage VI following acute or chronic exposure to immune stimulating compounds
Molecular Immunology·2006· 35 cited
Cloning of a crustin-like, single whey-acidic-domain, antibacterial peptide from the haemocytes of the European lobster, Homarus gammarus, and its response to infection with bacteria
Molecular Immunology·2005· 103 cited

Frequent Co-authors

L. Courtney Smith(4), Valerie J. Smith(4), Audrey J. Majeske(3), David P. Terwilliger(3), Katherine M. Buckley(3), Sham V. Nair(2), Jonathan P. Rast(2), Chris Hauton(2), Taku Hibino(1), Mariano Loza‐Coll(1), Cynthia Messier(1), Avis H. Cohen(1), Kevin Berney(1), Sebastian D. Fugmann(1), Michele K. Anderson(1), Zeev Pancer(1), R. Andrew Cameron(1), Nicole J Ritter(1), John H. Henson(1), David A. Raftos(1)