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Editorial: Untangling the oxygen transport cascade: a tribute to Peter Frappell (Frapps)

Elias T Polymeropoulos1, William K Milsom2

  • 1Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia. elias.polymeropoulos@utas.edu.au.

Journal of Comparative Physiology. B, Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology
|August 31, 2021
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Body temperatureHeart rateHypoxiaLung ventilationMetabolismOxygen consumption

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