Ontogenetic Changes and Environmental Hypoxia: Responses of Two Fish Species to Low Oxygen Concentrations at Early Life Stages

• Main Author: Balfour, David Leigh
• Other Authors: Biology, Heath, Alan G., Turner, Bruce J., Keenan, Thomas W., Angermeier, Paul L., McNabb, F. M. Anne
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Virginia Tech 1999
• Subjects: Citrate Synthase; Avoidance Behavior; Larval Fishes; Lactate Dehydrogenase; Ontogeny; Hypoxia; Oxygen Consumption; Lactate; Minnows; The Minnows
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26467; http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03212000-16120002/

Hypoxia refers to any condition in which the water is less than fully saturated with oxygen. Although it is generally accepted that adults are more tolerant of hypoxic conditions than larval stages, there is little information to support this assumption. To determine whether reduced concentrations o...