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One of the most striking features of arthropod hemocyanins is their remarkable subunit heterogeneity, which has been documented in a large variety of papers. Intensive studies on several hemocyanins have shown intraspecific differences between subunits in electrophoretic mobility, immunogenicity, oligomeric topology, primary structure, and oxygen binding function. Additionally, a marked interspecific diversity of the electrophoretic subunit patterns was observed. This, however, prohibits an easy comparison of data, because by no means it is obvious which subunit of a hemocyanin corresponds to a particular subunit of another hemocyanin. It has required much effort and the collaboration of several laboratories to analyse the interspecific correspondencies between the hemocyanin subunits of two xiphosura, two scorpions, and two spiders (1–4).
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Markl, J., Stöcker, W., Runzler, R., Precht, E. (1986). Immunological Correspondences Between the Hemocyanin Subunits of 86 Arthropods: Evolution of a Multigene Protein Family. In: Linzen, B. (eds) Invertebrate Oxygen Carriers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71481-8_50
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