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Modified horseshoe crab peptides target and kill bacteria inside host cells. [PDF]

open access: yesCell Mol Life Sci, 2021
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Mating In The Moonlight: The Battle To Save The American Horseshoe Crab

open access: yes, 2016
Horseshoe crabs have survived largely unchanged for over 350 million years. Their ancestors saw the dinosaurs rise and fall; they outlasted ice ages, asteroid impacts, and climate changes.
Okun, Sebastian B.
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Age and sex specific timing, frequency, and spatial distribu-tion of horseshoe crab spawning in Delaware Bay: Insights from a large-scale radio telemetry array

open access: yesCurrent Zoology, 2010
To study horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus spawning behavior and migration over a large-spatial extent (>100 km), we arrayed fixed station radio receivers throughout Delaware Bay and deployed radio transmitters and archival tags on adult horseshoe crabs ...
David R. SMITH, Lorne J. BROUSSEAU, Mary T. MANDT, Michael J. MILLARD
doaj  

Shorebird Utilization of Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) Eggs at Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina

open access: yes, 2016
Eggs of American horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) provide migratory shorebirds with an abundant food source at stopover sites, allowing the birds to rapidly gain weight for their migration to arctic breeding sites.
Takahashi, Fumika
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The Horseshoe Crab Conundrum: Can We Harvest and Conserve?

open access: yes, 2008
Horeshoe crabs Limulus polyphemus are remarkable ‘living fossils’ which have unique blood cells (amebocytes) that are used to test human vaccines for bacterial contamination.
Mattei, Jennifer, Beekey, Mark
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