High fliers: The physiology of bar-headed geese

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-329

  Butler, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bar headed geese; Cerebral blood flow; Haemoglobin oxygen affinity; Himalayas; Hyperventilation; Hypocapnia; Lee waves; Migration

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; BLOOD CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLYING; GOOSE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; LUNG VENTILATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANSER; ANSER INDICUS; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77951943950     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.01.016     Document Type: Review

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