Hemocyanin facilitates lignocellulose digestion by wood-boring marine crustaceans

Hemocyanin facilitates lignocellulose digestion by wood-boring marine crustaceans

Woody (lignocellulosic) plant biomass is an abundant renewable feedstock, rich in polysaccharides that are bound into an insoluble fiber composite with lignin. Marine crustacean woodborers of the genus Limnoria are among the few animals that can survive on a diet of this recalcitrant material withou...

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Main Authors: Besser, Katrin (Author), Malyon, Graham P. (Author), Eborall, William S. (Author), Paro da Cunha, Giovanni (Author), Filgueiras, Jefferson G. (Author), Dowle, Adam (Author), Garcia, Lourdes Cruz (Author), Page, Samuel J. (Author), Dupree, Ray (Author), Kern, Marcelo (Author), Gomez, Leonardo D. (Author), Li, Yi (Author), Elias, Luisa (Author), Sabbadin, Federico (Author), Mohamad, Shaza E. (Author), Pesante, Giovanna (Author), Steele-King, Clare (Author), Ribeiro de Azevedo, Eduardo (Author), Polikarpov, Igor (Author), Dupree, Paul (Author), Cragg, Simon M. (Author), Bruce, Neil C. (Author), McQueen-Mason, Simon J. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2018-12-03.
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