Ventilatory and metabolic responses of burrowing owls, Athene cunicularia, to moderate and extreme hypoxia: Analysis of the hypoxic ventilatory threshold vs. hemoglobin oxygen affinity relationship in birds

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 247-257

  Kilgore Jr , Delbert L ^a   Boggs, Dona F ^b   Kilgore, Trevor J ^c   Colby, Conrad ^d   Williams Jr , Burl R ^e   Bavis, Ryan W ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sentinel High School   (United States)

^d BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Athene cunicularia; Burrowing owl; Hypoxia; Hypoxic ventilatory threshold; Metabolism; Oxygen convection requirement; Phylogenetically independent contrasts; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; ATHENE CUNICULARIA; BLOOD GAS; FEMALE; HYPOXIA; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OWL; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PHYLOGENY;

ATHENE; ATHENE CUNICULARIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; SPEOTYTO CUNICULARIA;

EID: 44849111525     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.04.014     Document Type: Article

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