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Structures of Red Blood Cell Hemoglobins

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Blood and Tissue Oxygen Carriers

Part of the book series: Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology ((COMPARATIVE,volume 13))

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This review will deal with red blood cell hemoglobins from the lower invertebrates to mammals. In preparing this chapter, I drew heavily on two excellent reviews (Terwilliger 1980; Terwilliger and Terwilliger 1985) that have put the subject of invertebrate hemoglobins in perspective. As will become apparent, Robert Terwilliger and his wife, Nora Terwilliger, have made a great many seminal contributions to our understanding of the diversity of hemoglobins in the animal kingdom. Bob Terwilliger will be sorely missed.

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Royer, W.E. (1992). Structures of Red Blood Cell Hemoglobins. In: Mangum, C.P. (eds) Blood and Tissue Oxygen Carriers. Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76418-9_4

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