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Are there physiological and biochemical adaptations of metabolism in deep-sea animals?
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From the earliest observations of deep-sea animals, it was obvious that they differed in many ways from shallower-living relatives. Over the years, there has been speculation that deep-sea animals have unusually low rates of biological activity; numerous adaptive scenarios explaining this have ben offered. However, these speculations and scenarios have rarely been tested due to the difficulty of data collection and the inevitable confounding of a number of major variables which covary with depth. In recent years, study of the metabolic properties of animals of several phyla from widely differing deep-sea habitats, including the hydrthermal vents, has made it possible, using comparative approaches, to test hypotheses concerning the metabolic adaptations of deep-sea animals.
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- Authors
- Childress, J. J.
- Venue
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1995-01
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 30-36
- ISSN
- 0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
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- W2009815336
- Cited by
- 327
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 1.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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