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Do method and species lifestyle affect measures of maximum metabolic rate in fishes?

S S Killen1, T Norin1, L G Halsey2

  • 1Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, U.K.

Journal of Fish Biology
|October 26, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
aerobic scopeecophysiologyfisheslocomotionmetabolismteleosts

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