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Changes in scaling of respiratory systems during the development of fishes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

G. M. Hughes  and
N. K. Al-Kadhomiy
G. M. Hughes
Affiliation:
Research Unit for Comparative Animal Respiration, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG
N. K. Al-Kadhomiy
Affiliation:
Research Unit for Comparative Animal Respiration, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG
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Relationships between respiratory area, oxygen consumption, and body mass have been examined during the development of water- and air-breathing fish. It is concluded that there is at least one stage at which the slope of the relationship between log gill area and log body weight changes during fish development. This usually occurs in the weight range 0.05–1.0 g and is often associated with a distinct metamorphosis, but no common functional significance can be attached to them. However, the change in slope does not appear to be associated with a comparable inflexion in the corresponding relationship between body mass and oxygen consumption (routine). It seems probable that other surfaces are important during these transitions and that the total gas-exchange surface of the fish shows a more constant change throughout the life history. Further analyses of a wider range of species is required to test this hypothesis.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , August 1988 , pp. 489 - 498
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1988

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