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| 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 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| 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. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 50% |
| Australia | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| Panama | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 74 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 13 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 11% |
| Other | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 16 | 21% |
| Unknown | 11 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 34 | 45% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 14 | 18% |
| Environmental Science | 6 | 8% |
| Engineering | 3 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 13 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 November 2023.
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#6,652,175
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#83,090
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Outputs of similar age
#46,831
of 183,128 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#450
of 990 outputs
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