J-H. LIGNOT, ET AL. 1 Water transport and aquaporins in the European eel, (Anguilla anguilla).

A fundamental problem for euryhaline aquatic organisms is the maintenance of a body fluid composition different from that of their immediate environment. Most fish species such as the teleosteans, maintain a reasonably constant osmotic equilibrium of their body fluids and independent to the saliniti...

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Main Authors: Jean-herve Lignot, Christopher Paul Cutler, Gordon Cramb
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Summary:A fundamental problem for euryhaline aquatic organisms is the maintenance of a body fluid composition different from that of their immediate environment. Most fish species such as the teleosteans, maintain a reasonably constant osmotic equilibrium of their body fluids and independent to the salinities of their