Returning on empty: Extreme blood O2 depletion underlies dive capacity of emperor penguins

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 4279-4285

  Ponganis, P J ^a   Stockard, T K ^a   Meir, J U ^a   Williams, C L ^a   Ponganis, K V ^a   Van Dam, R P ^a   Howard, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerobic dive limit; Blood gases; Dive; Emperor penguin; Hypoxemia; P O2

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSEL; DIVING; PENGUIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; REST; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOOD VESSELS; DIVING; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; REST; SPHENISCIDAE; TIME FACTORS;

APTENODYTES FORSTERI; AVES; MAMMALIA; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 38149019378     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.011221     Document Type: Article

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