Tegillarca granosa

Structure and immune expression analysis of hemoglobin genes from the blood clam Tegillarca granosa

Y. B. Bao, Wang, Q., Guo, X. M., and Lin, Z. H., Structure and immune expression analysis of hemoglobin genes from the blood clam Tegillarca granosa, vol. 12, pp. 3110-3123, 2013.

Hemoglobin (Hb) is the major protein component of erythrocytes in animals with red blood, although it can serve additional functions beyond the transport of oxygen. The blood clam (Tegillarca granosa) is one of the few mollusks that has Hb, although the structure and function of molluskan Hbs remain unclear. We characterized two unique and highly compartmentalized blood clam hemoglobin genes, Tg-HbIIA and Tg-HbIIB, at the molecular level.

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