Deep-sea echinoderm oxygen consumption rates and an interclass comparison of metabolic rates in Asteroidea, Crinoidea, Echinoidea, Holothuroidea and Ophiuroidea

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2512-2521

  Hughes, Sarah Jane Murty ^a   Ruhl, Henry A ^b   Hawkins, Lawrence E ^a   Hauton, Chris ^a   Boorman, Ben ^b   Billett, David S M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deep sea; Echinoderm; Metabolism; Oxygen consumption; Respiration; ROV

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; ECHINODERM; ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BASAL METABOLISM; ECHINODERMATA; ENVIRONMENT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY, COMPARATIVE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CRINOIDEA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; HOLOTHUROIDEA; OPHIUROIDEA;

EID: 79960694256     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.055954     Document Type: Article

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