High-altitude diving in river otters: Coping with combined hypoxic stresses

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 256-263

  Crait, Jamie R ^a   Prange, Henry D ^b   Marshall, Noah A ^b   Harlow, Henry J ^a   Cotton, Clark J ^a   Ben David, Merav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Albumin; Chloride shift; Hemoglobin binding affinity; Invasive species; Lontra canadensis; Nitric oxide; Oxygen dissociation curve

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CARNIVORA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVING; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIVING; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; MALE; OTTERS; OXYGEN; WASHINGTON; WYOMING;

LONTRA CANADENSIS; LUTRA CANADENSIS; LUTRINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84856484954     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.059774     Document Type: Article

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