Hemoglobin Function in Vertebrates: Molecular Adaptation in Extreme and Temperate Environments

ISBN-13: 9788847001077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 123 str.

G. Di Prisco; B. Giardina; R. E. Weber

Opis

This volume comprises selected contributions by internationally renowned researchers and represents the state-of-the-art in the field of haemoglobin function in vertebrates living in extreme and temperate environments.

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Molecular Aspects of Temperature Adaptation.- Adaptations for Oxygen Transport: Lessons from Fish Hemoglobins.- Recent Evolution of the Hemoglobinless Condition of the Antarctic Icefishes.- Oxygen-Transport System and Mode of Life in Antarctic Fish.- Functional Properties of the Cathodic Hemoglobin Component from Two Species of Anguilliformes.- Oxygen Transport in Diving Vertebrates.- Oxygen Transport and Diving Behaviour: The Haemoglobin from Dolphin Tursiops truncatus.- Molecular Modelling Analysis of the Haemoglobins of the Antarctic Bird Catharacta maccormicki: the Hypothesis of a Second Phosphate Binding Site.- Transport of Oxygen during Hibernation: the Hemoglobin of Dryomys nitedula.- The Hemoglobin Polymorphism in Sardinian Goats: Nucleotide Sequence and Frequency of ?A, ?D, ?D-Malta, and ?E Globin Genes.- The Organization of the 13-Globin Gene Cluster and the Nucleotide Sequence of the ?-Globin Gene of Cyprus Mouflon (Ovis gmelini ophion).