Thermal acclimation is not necessary to maintain a wide thermal breadth of aerobic scope in the common killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 107-119

  Healy, Timothy M ^a   Schulte, Patricia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID;

ACCLIMATION; CORRELATION; CYPRINID; ENZYME ACTIVITY; METABOLISM; OXIC CONDITIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; OVARY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FUNDULIDAE; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLES; OVARY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; TEMPERATURE;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS;

EID: 84858712270     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/664584     Document Type: Article

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