The quantitative role of hemocyanin in aerobic respiration of limulus polyphemus.
Measurements of the total oxygen content of post- and prebranchial blood in Limulus polyphemus indicate that hemocyanin transports less than half of the oxygen consumed in water but almost 90% in air. Half of the increase in hemocyanin function during air exposure is due to the occurrence of a reverse Bohr effect.
D000332:Aerobiosis; D000818:Animals; D003386:Brachyura / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D002302:Cardiac Output; D006433:Hemocyanins / Q000032:analysis*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D010101:Oxygen Consumption
D006433:Hemocyanins; D010100:Oxygen