What triggers the aerobic dive limit? Patterns of muscle oxygen depletion during dives of emperor penguins

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1802-1812

  Williams, Cassondra L ^a   Meir, Jessica U ^b   Ponganis, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ADL; Aerobic dive limit; Diving; Emperor penguin; Metabolic rate; Muscle; Myoglobin; NIR; O2 consumption; Oxygen store

Indexed keywords

AVIAN PROTEIN; MYOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIVING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; PENGUIN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; DIVING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MUSCLES; MYOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPHENISCIDAE;

APTENODYTES FORSTERI;

EID: 79957465077     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.052233     Document Type: Article

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