Month
Purification time (hours)
Phagocytosis capacity (%)
Mussels parasitized with
Marteilia
spp.
Marteilia
-free mussels
May
0
78
85
24
89
85
48
91
84
June
0
66
78
24
78
58
48
73
65
October
0
81
76
24
40
33
48
68
60
Table 4:
Number of haemocytes out of 100 able to phagocytize three or more zymosan yeast observed in parasitized and parasite-free mussels (
M. galloprovincialis
) at different purification times.
