Gill respiratory parameters during progressive hypoxia in the facultative air-breathing fish, Hypostomus regani (Loricariidae)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 311-315

  Mattias, A T ^a   Rantin, F T ^a   Fernandes, M N ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Air breathing; Aquatic respiration; Fish; Gill ventilation; Hypostomus regani; Hypoxia; Loricariid; Oxygen consumption

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREATHING; FISH; GILL; HYPOXIA; LUNG VOLUME; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION;

EID: 0032075749     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)00034-8     Document Type: Article

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