Metabolic organization of freshwater, euryhaline, and marine elasmobranchs: Implications for the evolution of energy metabolism in sharks and rays

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2495-2508

  Speers Roesch, B ^a   Ip, Y K ^b   Ballantyne, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Chiloscyllium punctatum; Elasmobranch; Enzyme; Evolution; Freshwater; Himantura signifer; Intermediary metabolism; Ketone body; Lipid; Marine; Non esterified fatty acid; Potamotrygon motoro; Salinity; Taeniura lymma; Urea

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; FATTY ACID; FISH PROTEIN; FRESH WATER; KETONE BODY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UREA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELASMOBRANCHII; ELECTRIC FISH; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; KIDNEY; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SALT GLAND; SEA; SHARK;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; CARNITINE O-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; ELASMOBRANCHII; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; FISH PROTEINS; FRESH WATER; KETONE BODIES; KIDNEY; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; OCEANS AND SEAS; SALT GLAND; SHARKS; SKATES (FISH); SODIUM CHLORIDE; UREA;

CHILOSCYLLIUM PUNCTATUM; CHONDRICHTHYES; DASYATIDAE; ELASMOBRANCHII; HIMANTURA SIGNIFER; POTAMOTRYGON MOTORO; POTAMOTRYGONINAE; TAENIURA LYMMA;

EID: 33747052575     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02294     Document Type: Article

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