Info on deep sea adaptations

[Ken Kinman]

Here are a couple of literature citations (plus a search engine suggestion):
     (1) James J. Childress, 1995.  "Are there physiological and biochemical
adaptations of metabolism in deep-sea animals?".  Trends in Ecology and
Evolution, Vol. 10:30-36.
     (2) Allen G. Gibbs, 1997.  "Biochemistry at depth".  Fish Physiology,
Vol. XVI, pp. 239-278.
     (3) And although many adaptations are due to life at high pressures,
many others are due to low oxygen levels.  For specific information on that,
I would suggest going to your favorite search engine and do a search for:
minimum oxygen zone adaptations.  I tried this at google.com, and I got over
2,700 hits (many of which looked very promising).  Good luck.
        ------- Cheers,
                 Ken Kinman
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>From: "Mos S." <S.Mos at PHYS.UU.NL>
>Reply-To: "Mos S." <S.Mos at PHYS.UU.NL>
>To: TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG
>Subject: Info on deep sea adaptations
>Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 23:25:11 +0100
>
>Dear sir, madam,
>
>I am a student at Utrecht University, Holland, and currently following a
>course on marine biology. I have been trying to find information about
>physiological adaptations in deep sea animals, in particular changes in
>enzymes and membranes, but this turns out to be quite hard...
>
>I was hoping you could help me by supplying some titles of articles or
>other
>literature on this subject that might be useful.
>
>Thank you very much, and I am looking forward to hearing from you,
>
>Yours sincerely,
>
>Sanne Mos
>Utrecht University, department of Biology
>s.mos at phys.uu.nl

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