Response of heart rate and cloacal ventilation in the bimodally respiring freshwater turtle, Rheodytes leukops, to experimental changes in aquatic PO 2

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-73

  Gordos, Matthew A ^a   Limpus, Colin J ^b   Franklin, Craig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquatic respiration; Bradycardia; Heart rate; Rheodytes leukops; Turtle

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CLOACA; DIVING; FEMALE; HEART RATE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; CLOACA; DIVING; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; HEART RATE; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; RESPIRATION; TURTLES;

RHEODYTES LEUKOPS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 28844472572     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-005-0033-z     Document Type: Article

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