Physiology of hibernation under the ice
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Donald C. Jackson; Gordon R. Ultsch
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Article
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2010
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Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
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English
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Successful overwintering under ice by an air-breathing vertebrate requires either effective aquatic respiration if dissolved O 2 is available or the capacity for prolonged anaerobic metabolism if O 2 supplies are limiting. Frogs can remain aerobic for many weeks when submerged at low temperature, ev