The West African lungfish secretes a living cocoon during aestivation with uncertain antimicrobial function
M. Fernanda Palominos, Rangarajan Bharadwaj, Charles Tralka, Kenneth Trang, D. Nos Aka, M. Alami, Dominique Andrews, Ben I Bartlett, Chloe L. Golde, Joseph Liu, Maya Le-Pedroza, Robert Perrot, Blanca Seiter, Claudia Sparrow, Michael Shapira, Christopher H. Martin
The paper investigates the structure and function of the aestivation cocoon in West African lungfish, finding no antimicrobial activity in the cocoon tissue.
bioRxiv · Jul 5, 2024 · PreprintPhysiology