Ultrastructural and protein analysis of surfactant in the Australian lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri: evidence for conservation of composition for 300 million years

The Australian lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri is the most primitive member of the lungfish family, with a surfactant lipid composition similar to the actinopterygiian fishes, which evolved 400 million years ago. We have analysed the proteins associated with surfactant isolated from lung lavage of th...

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