title: Oxygen transport in extreme environments.
abstract: Evolution has adopted different strategies to solve the problem of transporting oxygen to respiring tissues, according to needs dictated by the environment. A thermodynamic analysis of haemoglobins of organisms living in extreme polar environments (mammals and fish) provides elegant examples of such adaptations.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Protein Biochemistry and Enzymology, CNR, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: di Prisco
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Condò
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tamburrini
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Giardina
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D001110:Arctic Regions; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001693:Biological Transport, Active; D001831:Body Temperature; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008322:Mammals / Q000502:physiology*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism*; D010108:Oxyhemoglobins / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D010108:Oxyhemoglobins; D010100:Oxygen