David Streuli

Oct 24, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Pengfei Liu |Christian R. Baumann |Oliver Zerbe |David Streuli

1 INTRODUCTION Some metal ions are essential for life, whereas others are toxic to cells, even at low concentrations, and therefore need to be tightly regulated. Organisms, particularly gastropods, have therefore developed ways of immobilizing toxic metal ions in order to cope with variable levels of these metals in their environment (Dallinger et al., 2020).