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Science 5 March 1976:
Vol. 191. no. 4230, pp. 957 - 959
DOI: 10.1126/science.1251208
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Science, Vol 191, Issue 4230, 957-959
Copyright © 1976 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Fishes in oxygen-minimum zones: blood oxygenation characteristics

EL Douglas, WA Friedl, and GV Pickwell

Teleosts living in some mid-water pelagic regions of the Pacific are hypoxic or anaerobic during most of the day and become aerobic only during their diurnal migrations to and from the sea surface. The blood oxygen capacities of these fishes are among the lowest ever reported, and the oxygen dissociation curves show a very low affinity for oxygen.


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