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Applied and Environmental Soil Science
Volume 2010, Article ID 294258, 13 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/294258
Review Article

Earthworm Protease

Rong Pan, Zi-Jian Zhang, and Rong-Qiao He

Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Da Tun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China

Received 1 August 2009; Accepted 30 October 2009

Academic Editor: Natchimuthu Karmegam

Copyright © 2010 Rong Pan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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