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The Holothuria leucospilota genome elucidates sacrificial organ expulsion and bioadhesive trap enriched with amyloid-patterned proteins
Some tropical sea cucumbers of the family Holothuriidae can efficiently repel or even fatally ensnare predators by sacrificially ejecting a bioadhesive matrix termed the Cuvierian organ (CO), so named by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier who first described it in 1831. Still, the precise mechanism...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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National Academy of Sciences
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10120082/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37036994 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213512120 |