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. 1985 Jun;82(11):3721–3725. doi: 10.1073/pnas.82.11.3721

Centipedal hemocyanin: its structure and its implications for arthropod phylogeny.

C P Mangum, J L Scott, R E Black, K I Miller, K E Van Holde
PMCID: PMC397859  PMID: 3858846

Abstract

The oxygen carrier hemocyanin occurs in the blood of Scutigera coleoptrata, a uniramous arthropod, as well as the crustaceans and chelicerates. The native polymer appears to be composed of substructures having the same size and electron-dense image as those of other arthropod hemocyanins but assembled into a unique multiple and arranged in a unique configuration. The simplest explanation of these findings is that the arthropod hemocyanins have a common origin, exemplifying a derived (as opposed to primitive) character shared by each of the three living groups.

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