The relative timing of skin-to-gill transitions for sodium and oxygen uptake and the plasticity of gill ionoregulatory development in larval rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss
This study is the first to provide direct physiological evidence that larval fish gills play a primary role in ionoregulation considerably earlier than they do for gas exchange. Resting unidirectional sodium (Na+) and oxygen (O₂) uptake across the skin and gills were measured simultaneously in rain...
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University of British Columbia
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7915 |