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- Hemocyanins (also spelled haemocyanins and abbreviated Hc) are proteins that transport oxygen throughout the bodies of some invertebrate animals. These...
- were long thought unnecessary in insects, but ancestral and functional hemocyanin has been found in the hemolymph. Insect "blood" generally does not carry...
- There are four major classifications of respiratory pigment: hemoglobin, hemocyanin, erythrocruorin–chlorocruorin, and hemerythrin. The heme-containing globin...
- drop to 3% of its total oxygen uptake. The octopus' respiratory pigment, hemocyanin, also ****ists in increasing oxygen uptake. Octopuses can maintain a constant...
- leukocytes and the second-most common respiratory pigment called hemocyanin.: 488  Arthropod hemocyanin is a distinct variation specific to arthropods and is a...
- blue blood may refer to: Hemolymph, circulatory fluid colored blue by hemocyanin, a respiratory protein evident in most molluscs and some arthropods Nobility...
- skeleton. The blood of these molluscs contains the respiratory pigment hemocyanin as an oxygen-carrier. The heart consists of one or more pairs of atria...
- In northern krill, the respiratory pigment is called hemocyanin. Unlike hemoglobin, hemocyanin is susceptible to change due to temperature and has a...
- Keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) is a large, multisubunit, oxygen-carrying, metalloprotein that is found in the hemolymph of the giant keyhole limpet, Megathura...
- transport. The most common respiratory pigment in arthropods is copper-based hemocyanin; this is used by many crustaceans and a few centipedes. A few crustaceans...