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SUBMITTER: Cocca E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC42373 | biostudies-other | 1995 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cocca E E Ratnayake-Lecamwasam M M Parker S K SK Camardella L L Ciaramella M M di Prisco G G Detrich H W HW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19950301 6
Alone among piscine taxa, the antarctic icefishes (family Channichthyidae, suborder Notothenioidei) have evolved compensatory adaptations that maintain normal metabolic functions in the absence of erythrocytes and the respiratory oxygen transporter hemoglobin. Although the uniquely "colorless" or "white" condition of the blood of icefishes has been recognized since the early 20th century, the status of globin genes in the icefish genomes has, surprisingly, remained unexplored. Using alpha- and b ...[more]