The influence of aquatic surface respiration (ASR) on cardio- respiratory function of the serrasalmid fish Piaractus mesopotamicus

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 991-997

  Rantin, Francisco Tadeu ^a   Del Rosario Guerra, Cecilia ^b   Kalinin, Ana Lúcia ^a   Lesner Glass, Mogens ^c  

^a S o Carlos Federal University   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aquatic surface respiration; Critical O2 tension; Heart frequency; Hypoxia; O2 uptake; Piaractus mesopotamicus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; BREATHING; FISH; HEART FUNCTION; HYPOXIA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA; PIARACTUS MESOPOTAMICUS; SERRASALMIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031869620     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)00016-6     Document Type: Article

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