Respiratory Pigments in Animals

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Structure and Function of Hemerythrins

   • W. A. Hendrickson, J. L. Smith, S. Sheriff

   Pages 1-7

3. The Structure of Erythrocruorins and Chlorocruorins, the Invertebrate Extracellular Hemoglobins

   • S. N. Vinogradov

   Pages 9-20

4. Physiological Adaptations and Subunit Diversity in Hemocyanins

   • J. Bonaventura, C. Bonaventura

   Pages 21-34

5. Functions and Functioning of Crustacean Hemocyanin

   • B. McMahon

   Pages 35-58

6. Primary Structure of Arthropod Hemocyanins

   • B. Linzen, W. Schartau, H.-J. Schneider

   Pages 59-71

7. Quaternary Structure of Arthropod Hemocyanins

   • J. Lamy, J. Lamy, P.-Y. Sizaret, P. Billiald, G. Motta

   Pages 73-86

8. Cephalopod Hemocyanins: Structure and Function

   • K. E. van Holde, K. I. Miller

   Pages 87-96

9. Molecular and Cellular Adaptations of Fish Hemoglobin-Oxygen Affinity to Environmental Changes

   • D. A. Powers

   Pages 97-124

10. Oxygen Transport Proteins: A Unitarian View Based on Thermodynamic Kinetic and Stereochemical Considerations

    • B. Giardina, M. Coletta, L. Zolla, M. Brunori

    Pages 125-140

11. Evolution and Adaptation of Avian and Crocodilian Hemoglobins

    • A. G. Schnek, C. Paul, J. Leonis

    Pages 141-158

12. Abnormal Human Hemoglobins: Molecular Tools to Study Normal Hemoglobin Functions

    • C. Poyart, E. Bursaux, F. Galacteros, H. Wacjman

    Pages 159-170

13. Back Matter

    Pages 171-175

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This volume is one of those published from the proceedings of the invited lectures to the First International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry I organized at LI~e (Belgium) in August 1984 under the auspices of the Section of Comparative of the International Union of Biological Sciences. In a Physiology and Biochemistry general foreword to these different volumes, it seems to me appropriate to consider briefly what may be the comparative approach. Living organisms, beyond the diversity of their morphological forms, have evolved a widespread range of basic solutions to cope with the different problems, both organisma! and environmental, with which they are faced. Soon after the turn of the century, some biologists realized that these solutions can be best comprehended In the framework of a comparative approach integrating results of phYSiological and biochemical studies done at the organismic, cellular and molecular levels. The development of this approach amongst both physiologists and biochemists remained, however, extremely slow until recently.

• Crustacea
• Pigments
• biochemistry
• development
• primary structure

• Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Francois-Rabelais, Tours Cedex, France

  Jean Lamy

• Department of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Francois-Rabelais, Tours Cedex, France

  Jean Lamy

• Laboratory of Neurobiology and Compared Physiology, University of Bordeaux I, Arcachon Cedex, France

  Jean-Paul Truchot

• Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

  Raymond Gilles

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