Remote measurement of the physiology, behaviour and energetic status of free-living
animals is made possible by a variety of techniques that we refer to collectively as …

Over the past two decades, comparative biological analyses have undergone profound
changes with the incorporation of rigorous evolutionary perspectives and phylogenetic …

Understanding the physiology and genetics of human hypoxia tolerance has important
medical implications, but this phenomenon has thus far only been investigated in high …

Organisms vary widely in their tolerance to conditions of limiting oxygen supply to their cells
and tissues. A unifying framework of hypoxia tolerance is now available that is based on …

▪ Abstract Evolutionary physiology represents an explicit fusion of two complementary
approaches: evolution and physiology. Stimulated by four major intellectual and …

The oxygen store/usage hypothesis suggests that larger animals are able to dive for longer
and hence deeper because oxygen storage scales isometrically with body mass, whereas …

The mammalian diving response (DR) is a remarkable behavior that was first formally
studied by Laurence Irving and Per Scholander in the late 1930s. The DR is called such …

Pinnipeds rely primarily on oxygen stores in blood and muscles to support aerobic diving;
therefore rapid development of body oxygen stores (TBO 2) is crucial for pups to transition …

The dive response, or the 'master switch of life', is probably the most studied physiological
trait in marine mammals and is thought to conserve the available O2 for the heart and brain …

Many diving mammals are known for their ability to deal with nitrogen supersaturation and to
tolerate apnea for extended periods. They are all characterized by high oxygen-carrying …