Relationship between fish size and metabolic rate in the oxyconforming inanga Galaxias maculatus reveals size-dependent strategies to withstand hypoxia

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 740-749

  Urbina, Mauricio A ^a,b   Glover, Chris N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BODY SIZE; DATA SET; FISH; HYPOXIA; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SURVIVAL;

GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY SIZE; METABOLISM; OSMERIFORMES; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; GLUCOSE; LACTATES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OSMERIFORMES; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887746613     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673727     Document Type: Article

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