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Fooling a freshwater fish: how dietary salt transforms the rainbow trout gill into a seawater gill phenotype.
The Journal of experimental biology - 1 Dec 2006
Perry Steve F, Rivero-Lopez Luis, McNeill Brian, Wilson Jonathan
Abstract excerpt
Numerous fish species, including rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), are able to inhabit both freshwater and seawater and routinely migrate between the two environments. One of the most critical adjustments allowing such successful migrations is a remodelling of the gill in which a suite of morphological and molecular changes ensure optimal function in the face of reversing requirements for salt and water...
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