Whether depositing fat or losing weight, fish maintain a balance

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1674, 2009, Pages 3777-3782

  Brix, Ole ^a,b   Grüner, Renate ^b,c   Rønnestad, Ivar ^b   Gemballa, Sven ^d  

^a Michelsen Centre for Industrial Measurement Science and Technology   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Fat allocation; Hydrostatic balance; Swimming; Teleosts; Tissue density

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BUOYANCY; DENSITY; FAT RESERVE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GRAVITY; HYDROSTATICS; LOCOMOTION; SEXUAL MATURITY; SWIMMING; TELEOST; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC HERRING; ATLANTIC SALMON; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; BONE DENSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; GRAVITY; LIPID STORAGE; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CLUPEA HARENGUS; SALMO SALAR; SCOMBER SCOMBRUS; TELEOSTEI;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FISHES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 70449732731     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1079     Document Type: Article

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