The role of myoglobin in the evolution of mammalian diving capacity – The August Krogh principle applied in molecular and evolutionary physiology

Extinct proteins resurrected to reconstruct the evolution of vertebrate haemoglobin

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Origin of complexity in haemoglobin evolution

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Universal metabolic constraints shape the evolutionary ecology of diving in animals

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Phanerozoic p O 2 and the early evolution of terrestrial animals

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Tracing whale myoglobin evolution by resurrecting ancient proteins

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Amphibious fishes: evolution and phenotypic plasticity

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Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene

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First Long-Term Behavioral Records from Cuvier’s Beaked Whales (Ziphius cavirostris) Reveal Record-Breaking Dives

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Molecular evolution tracks macroevolutionary transitions in Cetacea

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Evolution of Mammalian Diving Capacity Traced by Myoglobin Net Surface Charge

(2013) S. Mirceta et al.   SCIENCE

Nitrite Regulates Hypoxic Vasodilation via Myoglobin-Dependent Nitric Oxide Generation

(2012) Matthias Totzeck et al.   CIRCULATION

Diverse cell-specific expression of myoglobin isoforms in brain, kidney, gill and liver of the hypoxia-tolerant carp and zebrafish

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Myoglobin's new clothes

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