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SUBMITTER: Costa-Paiva EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5363010 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Costa-Paiva Elisa M EM Whelan Nathan V NV Waits Damien S DS Santos Scott R SR Schrago Carlos G CG Halanych Kenneth M KM
BMC evolutionary biology 20170323 1
<h4>Background</h4>Despite extensive study on hemoglobins and hemocyanins, little is known about hemerythrin (Hr) evolutionary history. Four subgroups of Hrs have been documented, including: circulating Hr (cHr), myohemerythrin (myoHr), ovohemerythrin (ovoHr), and neurohemerythrin (nHr). Annelids have the greatest diversity of oxygen carrying proteins among animals and are the only phylum in which all Hr subgroups have been documented. To examine Hr diversity in annelids and to further understan ...[more]