Do I share the clotting cascade with large mouth bass?
I’m not really sure how closely related we are to other vertebrates with respect to the clotting cascade- my guess is that it is pretty close since it is such a fundamental and highly regulated system. With respect to using common mechanisms and similar proteins to inhibit clotting amongst the diverse creatures we’re talking about, it is perhaps not so surprising since nature has a way of defining common fundamental principals. For instance, certain proteins or domains of proteins are conserved throughout nature in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
