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Oxygen transport in extreme environments
G di Prisco1, S G Condò, M Tamburrini
1Institute of Protein Biochemistry and Enzymology, CNR, Naples, Italy.
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
|December 1, 1991
Abstract:
Evolution has adopted different strategies to solve the problem of transporting oxygen to respiring tissues, according to needs dictated by the environment. A thermodynamic analysis of haemoglobins of organisms living in extreme polar environments (mammals and fish) provides elegant examples of such adaptations.