Physiological and molecular mechanisms of osmoregulatory plasticity in killifish after seawater transfer

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2450-2459

  Scott, Graham R ^a   Baker, Daniel W ^a   Schulte, Patricia M ^a   Wood, Chris M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fundulus heteroclitus; Gene expression; Gills; Intestine; Opercular epithelium

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CHLORIDE; HYDROCORTISONE; SEA WATER; SODIUM; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; ENZYMOLOGY; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GILL; INTESTINE; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; ION TRANSPORT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHLORIDES; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPITHELIUM; FUNDULIDAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GILLS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINES; ION TRANSPORT; SEAWATER; SODIUM; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; WATER; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; CYPRINODONTOIDEI; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS;

EID: 50649115311     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.017947     Document Type: Article

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