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Gas Secretion in Coregonids

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IT is known that the coregonids do not possess a counter-current system in the vascularization of the swim-bladder. In his classical work Hüfner1 showed that C. acronius has a gas content in the swim-bladder consisting mainly of nitrogen—some 99 per cent. This was later verified by others2–4 on C. acronius and related species.

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  1. Directorate of Fisheries, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

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SUNDNES, G. Gas Secretion in Coregonids. Nature 183, 986–987 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183986a0

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