A novel acidification mechanism for greatly enhanced oxygen supply to the fish retina

A novel acidification mechanism for greatly enhanced oxygen supply to the fish retina

Previously, we showed that the evolution of high acuity vision in fishes was directly associated with their unique pH-sensitive hemoglobins that allow O2 to be delivered to the retina at PO2s more than ten-fold that of arterial blood (Damsgaard et al., 2019). Here, we show strong evidence that vacuo...

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Main Authors: Christian Damsgaard, Henrik Lauridsen, Till S Harter, Garfield T Kwan, Jesper S Thomsen, Anette MD Funder, Claudiu T Supuran, Martin Tresguerres, Philip GD Matthews, Colin J Brauner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-08-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
rainbow trout
carbon dioxide
carbonic anhydrase
proton pump
evolution
vision
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/58995

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