Balanus balanoides

Yule, A.B. and Walker, G., Settlement of Balanus balanoides the effect of cyprid antennular secretion, J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. UK, 65, 707, 1985. 

Knight-Jones, E. W., Laboratory experiments on gregariousness during settling in Balanus balanoides and other barnacles, J. Exp. Biol., 30, 584, 1953. 

Larman, V. N., Gabbott, P. A., and East, J., Physico-chemical properties of the settlement factor proteins from the barnacle Balanus balanoides, Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B., 72, 329, 1982. 

Not a good food organism for the barnacle Balanus balanoides... 

The substance that induces hatching of eggs in the barnacle Semibalanus (Balanus) balanoides is identified as a prostaglandin.131 In the intertidal barnacle Balanus perforates the compounds identified were... 

Bourget, E. Crisp, D. J. 1975. Factors affecting deposition of the shell in Balanus balanoides. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 55, 231-249. 

Stubbings, H. G. 1975. Balanus balanoides. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 174. 

Settlement. The fixation of the larvae of benthic animals does not take place randomly, but is sometimes guided by the presence of immerged substrata of organic substances deposited by adults previously fixed there. Thus, in the case of Balanus balanoides, the cyprid larvae attach themselves to surfaces where earlier barnacles have deposited a complex mixture of mucopolysaccharides and proteins associated to nucleic acids (Crisp, 1974). This mediator is not specific it is produced by several crustaceans smd has therefore received the name arthropodin. A similar phenomenon was described by Nott (1973) for the annelid Spirorbis spirorbis. 

Allison, J.B. and Cole, W.H., 1935. Behaviour of the barnacle Balanus balanoides as correlated with the planktonic content of the seawater. Mt. Desert Inst. Biol. Lab. Bull., pp. 24—25. 

Larman VN, Gabbott PA (1975) Settlement of cyprid larvae of Balanus balanoides and Elminius modestus induced by extracts of adult barnacle and other marine animals. J Mar Biol Ass UK 55 183-190... 

Nott JA, Foster BA (1969) On the structure of the antennular attachment organ of the cypris larva of Balanus balanoides (L.). Phil Trans Roy Soc B256 l 15-133... 

Walker G (1980) A study of the oviducal glands and ovisacs of Balanus balanoides (L.), together with comparative observations on the ovisacs of Balanus hameri (Ascanius) and the reproductive biology of the two species. Phil Trans R Soc B 291 147-162... 

Song, W.-C. Holland, D.L. Gibson, K.H. Clayton, E. Oldfield, A.Q. Identification of novel hydroxy fatty acids in the barnacle Balanus balanoides. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1990,1047, 239-246. 

Hill EM, Holland DL. Identification and egg hatching activity of monohydroxy fatty acid eicosanoids in the barnacle Balanus balanoides. Proc R Soc Lond 1992 247 41-46. 

Holland DL, East J, Gibson H, Clayton E, Oldfield A. Identification of the hatching factor of the barnacle Balanus balanoides as the novel eicosanoid 10,11,12 trihydroxy-5,8,14,17-eicosatetraenoic acid. Prostaglandins 1985 29 1021-1029. 

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