| Title |
The Role of the Proteinase Inhibitor Ovorubin in Apple Snail Eggs Resembles Plant Embryo Defense against Predation
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, December 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0015059 |
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| Authors |
Marcos Sebastián Dreon, Santiago Ituarte, Horacio Heras |
| Abstract |
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. |
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| Unknown | 74 | 97% |
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| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 11% |
| Other | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 16 | 21% |
| Unknown | 11 | 14% |
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| Engineering | 3 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 13 | 17% |