Oxygen consumption in burrowed and unburrowed ammocoetes of Lampetra planeri (Bloch)

I.C. Potter; M.J. Rogers

doi:10.1016/0300-9629(72)90073-4

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Oxygen consumption in burrowed and unburrowed ammocoetes of Lampetra planeri (Bloch)

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Oxygen consumption in burrowed and unburrowed ammocoetes of Lampetra planeri (Bloch)

I.C. Potter and M.J. Rogers

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology, Vol.41(2), pp.427-432

1972

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0300-9629(72)90073-4

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Abstract

1. At 15°C, the attainment of a constant rate of oxygen consumption took up to approximately 3 hr in burrowed and 12 hr in unburrowed ammocoetes. 2. The rate in acclimated ammocoetes (mean wet wt. l·34g) burrowed in the light and dark was 41·7 and 40·1 μl/g per hr respectively and in unburrowed animals under the same regimes was 69·0 and 55·7 μl/g per hr. 3. These results clarify conflicting previous recordings and indicate that ammocoetes have a very low metabolic rate.

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Title: Oxygen consumption in burrowed and unburrowed ammocoetes of Lampetra planeri (Bloch)
Authors/Creators: I.C. Potter (Author/Creator)
M.J. Rogers (Author/Creator)
Publication Details: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology, Vol.41(2), pp.427-432
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Identifiers: 991005541767007891
Murdoch Affiliation: Murdoch University
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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