Muscle oxygen-binding proteins circumvent anatomical limits to enhance oxygen diffusion in multicellular organisms

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Article title: Oxygen-binding proteins aid oxygen diffusion to enhance fitness of a yeast model of multicellularity

Author countries : United States

Funding: W.C.R. acknowledges support from the NIH (grant no. 5R35GM138030) and NSF (CAREER Grant no. 1845363), A.J.B. acknowledges support from the Human Frontiers Science Program grant (RGY0080/2020), W.W. and W.C.R acknowledges support from the NSF Division of Environmental Biology (grant no. DEB-1845363), and P.J.Y. acknowledges support from the NIH (grant no. 1R35GM138354). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS Biology

10.1371/journal.pbio.3002975

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Cells

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.