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Aerobic dive limits of seals with mutant myoglobin using combined thermochemical and physiological data.
Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology - 1 Jan 2013
Dasmeh Pouria, Davis Randall W, Kepp Kasper P
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This paper presents an integrated model of convective O(2)-transport, aerobic dive limits (ADL), and thermochemical data for oxygen binding to mutant myoglobin (Mb), used to quantify the impact of mutations in Mb on the dive limits of Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii). We find that wild-type Mb traits are only superior under specific behavioral and physiological conditions that critically prolong the ADL,...
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