Power isn't everything: Muscle function and energetic costs during steady swimming in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 320-335

  Syme, Douglas A ^a   Gollock, Matt ^b   Freeman, Marcus J ^c   Gamperl, A Kurt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; GADOID; MUSCLE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SWIMMING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; ENERGY METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GADUS MORHUA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SWIMMING;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 42649094140     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/528784     Document Type: Article

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