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Metabolism of Invertebrate Red Cells: A Vacuum in Our Knowledge

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When Dr. Isaacks asked us for a contribution on metabolism in invertebrate red cells, we agreed on the condition of a subtitle emphasizing the scarcity of information on the subject. We cannot even address items of such considerable interest as the sites of formation and destruction of these cells, their life history, and the biosynthesis of their most important constituent, the O2 carrier. To our knowledge not one intensive investigation of any one of these topics in any one phylum outside of the chordates has ever been reported, although casual observations are frequently mentioned in studies of cell ultrastructure (e.g., Fontaine and Lambert 1973; Boilly 1974; Fontaine and Hall 1981). Our task must be to describe what little is known about their structure and physiology in hopes of stimulating investigation in the future, and to summarize some exploratory studies on metabolism of RBCs in two representative species, the annelid bloodworm Glycera dibranchiata and the blood clam Noetia ponderosa.

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  1. Department of Biology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 23185, USA

    C. P. Mangum

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  1. Laboratory of Animal Physiology, University of Liège, 22, Quai Van Beneden, B-4020, Liège, Belgium

    Raymond Gilles

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Mangum, C.P., Mauro, N.A. (1985). Metabolism of Invertebrate Red Cells: A Vacuum in Our Knowledge. In: Gilles, R. (eds) Circulation, Respiration, and Metabolism. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70610-3_21

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