Multiple strategies of Lake Victoria cichlids to cope with lifelong hypoxia include hemoglobin switching

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Rutjes, H A ^a   Nieveen, M C ^a   Weber, R E ^b   Witte, F ^a   Van Den Thillart, G E E J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Hypoxia acclimation; Isohemoglobins; Oxygen transport; P50; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HEMOGLOBIN;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTATOREOCHROMIS ALLUAUDI; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FISH; HAPLOCHROMIS ISHMAELI; HEMATOCRIT; HYPOXIA; LAKE; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OREOCHROMIS; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CICHLIDS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ERYTHROCYTES; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548439777     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00536.2006     Document Type: Article

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