Molluscan mega-hemocyanin: An ancient oxygen carrier tuned by a ~550 kDa polypeptide

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lieb, Bernhard ^a   Gebauer, Wolfgang ^a   Gatsogiannis, Christos ^a   Depoix, Frank ^a   Hellmann, Nadja ^a   Harasewych, Myroslaw G ^b   Strong, Ellen E ^b   Markl, Jürgen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CERITHIOIDEA; GASTROPODA; LEPTOXIS; LEPTOXIS MELANOIDES; MELANOIDES; TEREBRALIA;

EID: 77952014255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-7-14     Document Type: Article

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