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The ruminant digestion model using bacteria already employed early in evolution by symbiotic molluscs

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The purification and some molecular properties of six lysozymes from the gills of different mytilids and vesicomyids are described: they belong to the previously described Invertebrate lysozyme family. The predominance of the bacterial nutrition in these organisms seems to necessitate the presence of a lysozyme as in the case of the ruminant digestion model.

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  1. Laboratory of Proteins, University of Paris V, 45, rue des Saints-Près, F 5270, Paris Cedex 06, France

    Jacqueline Jollès

  2. Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, Laboratoire Arago, University of Paris VI, F 66650, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France

    Aline Fiala-Médioni

  3. Laboratoire de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, URA CNRS No 401, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 63 rue Buffon, F 75005, Paris, France

    Pierre Jollès

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Jollès, J., Fiala-Médioni, A. & Jollès, P. The ruminant digestion model using bacteria already employed early in evolution by symbiotic molluscs. J Mol Evol 43, 523–527 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02337523

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