Ventilation and metabolic rate in the platypus: Insights into the evolution of the mammalian breathing pattern

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 943-955

  Frappell, Peter B ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breathing pattern; Convection requirement; Endothermy; Hypercapnia; Hypoxia; Metabolism; Ornithorhyncus anatinus; Rate of oxygen consumption; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BODY SIZE; BREATHING; BREATHING PATTERN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVING; EVOLUTION; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERPNEA; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOXIA; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; METABOLIC RATE; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLATYPUS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS;

EID: 0344436667     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00273-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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