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Physiological Roles of High Lipid Content in Tissues of Antarctic Fish Species

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Antarctic fish show many adaptations to their stenothermic cold life histories. The majority of antarctic fish produce glycoprotein antifreeze compounds which provide resistance to freezing of their hypoosmotic tissues by the subzero environment (DeVries 1983; DeVries, this Vol.). In many species, hematocrit of the blood is either substantially reduced or red cells and hemoglobin are absent (as in Channichthyidae), conditions which lower viscosity of the blood at severely cold temperature (Hemmingsen and Douglas 1977; Wells this Vol.). Lack of hemoglobin in Channichthyids is compensated for by increased heart size, blood volume and cardiac output (Hemmingsen et al. 1972; Hemmingsen, this Vol.).

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  1. Department of Zoology and Center for Marine Studies, University of Maine, 203 Murray Hall, Orono, Maine, 04469, USA

    B. D. Sidell

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  1. Institute of Protein Biochemistry and Enzymology (IBPE), Italian National Research Council, Via Marconi 10, I-80125, Naples, Italy

    Guido di Prisco

  2. International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, CNR, I-80125, Naples, Italy

    Bruno Maresca

  3. University of Calabria, I-87030, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy

    Bruno Tota

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Sidell, B.D. (1991). Physiological Roles of High Lipid Content in Tissues of Antarctic Fish Species. In: di Prisco, G., Maresca, B., Tota, B. (eds) Biology of Antarctic Fish. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76217-8_15

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