Air breathing in the Arctic: Influence of temperature, hypoxia, activity and restricted air access on respiratory physiology of the Alaska blackfish Dallia pectoralis

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 217, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 4387-4398

  Lefevre, Sjannie ^a   Damsgaard, Christian ^b   Pascale, Desirae R ^c   Nilsson, Göran E ^a   Stecyk, Jonathan A W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimodal respirometry; Critical oxygen tension; Gill remodeling; Haemoglobin oxygen affinity; Respiratory partitioning; Temperature acclimation

Indexed keywords

DALLIA; DALLIA PECTORALIS;

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALASKA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; FISH; GILL; HEMATOCRIT; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALASKA; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; FISHES; GILLS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84925870883     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: 14779145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.105023     Document Type: Article

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