Journal of Fish Biology (2001) 59, 818--823

• Main Authors: Doi Jfbi Available, A. Drud Jordan, M. Jungersen, J. F. Steffensen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Key words; East Siberian cod; Arctogadus borisovi; Arctic; metabolic cold adaptation; oxygen; Bushnell; Ege; Krogh; Scholander; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1.4064; http://www.mbl.ku.dk/jfsteffensen/JFishBiol01.pdf

INTRODUCTION The classical studies of Ege & Krogh (1914) and Krogh (1914, 1916) suggested that polar ectotherms would have an elevated metabolic rate (metabolic cold adaptation, MCA) relative to temperate ectotherms when exposed to the same temperature. Work by Scholander et al. (1953) and Wohls...