... 23 5 2012 © 2012. 2012 ancestral sequence reconstruction EF-hand environmental adaptation Notothenioidei protein structure/function Southern Ocean Most of our knowledge concerning the adaptation of proteins to varied thermal habitats comes from research on enzymes...

.... * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 22 11 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 Notothenioidei Bathydraconidae Nototheniidae antifreeze glycoprotein antifreeze potentiating protein development gills mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2...

... Antarctic fish sub-Antarctic fish skeletal muscle Notothenioidei Antarctic fish are archetypal stenotherms restricted to a narrow range of temperatures (−1.86°C to +2°C) that would be lethal for temperate and tropical species. There is a long history of studies on the mechanisms underlying cold...