Diving experience and the aerobic dive capacity of muskrats: Does training produce a better diver?

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1153-1161

  MacArthur, Robert A ^a   Weseen, Gillian L ^a   Campbell, Kevin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerobic dive limit; Body oxygen store; Dive behaviour; Dive conditioning; Haemoglobin; Metabolism; Muscle buffering capacity; Muskrat; Myoglobin; Ondatra zibethicus

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVING; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; DIVING; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINOMETRY; MUSCLES; OXYGEN; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MURIDAE; ONDATRA; ONDATRA ZIBETHICUS;

EID: 0037386464     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00221     Document Type: Article

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