A longitudinal and cross-sectional analysis of total body oxygen store development in nursing harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)

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

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-227

  Clark, Cheryl A ^a,d   Burns, Jennifer M ^a   Schreer, Jason F ^b   Hammill, Mike O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM   (United States)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^d ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Harbor seals; Hematology; Myoglobin; Oxygen stores

Indexed keywords

MYOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; PHOCA; PLASMA VOLUME; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUCKLING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; PHOCA; PLASMA VOLUME;

PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA;

EID: 33846572315     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-006-0123-6     Document Type: Article

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