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21151935

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-12-14
pubmed:abstractText
Fieldwork has thoroughly established that most eggs are intensely predated. Among the few exceptions are the aerial egg clutches from the aquatic snail Pomacea canaliculata which have virtually no predators. Its defenses are advertised by the pigmented ovorubin perivitellin providing a conspicuous reddish coloration. The nature of the defense however, was not clear, except for a screening for defenses that identified a neurotoxic perivitellin with lethal effect on rodents. Ovorubin is a proteinase inhibitor (PI) whose role to protect against pathogens was taken for granted, according to the prevailing assumption. Through biochemical, biophysical and feeding experiments we studied the proteinase inhibitor function of ovorubin in egg defenses.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1932-6203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
e15059
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
The role of the proteinase inhibitor ovorubin in apple snail eggs resembles plant embryo defense against predation.
pubmed:affiliation
Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de La Plata (INIBIOLP), CONICET-Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't