A comparative study of blood oxygen transport in turbot and sea bass: effect of chronic hypoxia

✍ Scribed by K. Pichavant; V. Maxime; P. Soulier; G. Boeuf; G. Nonnotte

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 141 KB
• Volume: 62
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-1112
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8649.2003.00089.x

✦ Synopsis

A comparative study of blood oxygen binding and carrying capacities of turbot Scophthalmus maximus and sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax, two fish species differing in their demand for oxygen, was carried out under three levels of chronic hypoxia (__P__o~2~ = 93, 65 and 40 mmHg) for 40 days. Blood O~2~ affinity in normoxia was moderately high in both species (P~50~ was c. 12–13 mmHg at pH 7·7). The Bohr factor was significantly lower in turbot (−0·52) than in sea bass (−0·85). In both species, blood O~2~ affinity was not significantly affected by oxygen depletion whatever its level and duration. In turbot, however, P~50~ appeared to slightly decrease at the two more severe levels of hypoxia. In both species, blood O~2~ carrying capacity was not affected by hypoxia and remained twice as high in sea bass than in turbot.