Description of respiratory pigments in arthropods

Give a brief description of respiratory pigments? Which respiratory pigment present in arthropods? Which analogous molecule present in humans?

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Respiratory pigments are molecules capable to transmit oxygen and additional respiratory gases present in the circulatory fluids.

In the crustaceans and in the arachnids hemocyanin is respiratory pigment. In humans analogous pigment is hemoglobin.

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