Muscle fibre number varies with haemoglobin phenotype in Atlantic cod as predicted by the optimal fibre number hypothesis

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 590-592

  Johnston, Ian A ^a,b   Abercromby, Marguerite ^a   Andersen, Øivind ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^c NOFIMA   (Norway)

^d Aquaculture Protein Centre   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biogeographic patterning; Muscle fibre recruitment

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

BIOENERGETICS; HEMOGLOBIN; HOMEOSTASIS; MUSCLE; OXYGEN; PHENOTYPE; SALMONID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HOMEOSTASIS; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN AFFINITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORDLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SALTFJORDEN; SCANDINAVIA;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 33845567119     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0500     Document Type: Article

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