Pseudocnus echinatus
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| Species: | C. echinata
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Cucumaria echinata is a sea cucumber species in the genus Cucumaria.
Cucumaria echinata is found in the Bay of Bengal. It is known to produce a lectin that has the ability to block the development of Plasmodium, the causal agent of malaria, when it is expressed in genetically modified Anopheles mosquitoes.[1]
References
- ^ Yoshida S, Shimada Y, Kondoh D; et al. (2007). "Hemolytic C-type lectin CEL-III from sea cucumber expressed in transgenic mosquitoes impairs malaria parasite development". PLoS Pathog. 3 (12): e192. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0030192. PMC 2151087. PMID 18159942.
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