Globins in the marine Annelid Platynereis dumerilii shed new light on hemoglobin evolution in Bilaterians
S. Song, V. V. Starunov, X. Bailly, C. Ruta, P. Kerner, A. J. Cornelissen, G. Balavoine
This study investigates globin evolution in the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii, revealing that hemoglobins in Bilaterians evolved convergently from a common ancestral clade of intracellular globins.
bioRxiv · Aug 26, 2020Evolutionary Biology