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Oxygen transport

• Physical properties of gas transport
• Respiratory pigments
• Hemoglobin
• Affinities and dissociation curves
• Factors affecting affinity
• Temperature
• CO2
• pH
• organic phosphates
• Fetal hemoglobins
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• Fish swim bladder and buoyancy
• Physostomes and physoclists
• The rete mirabile
• Changes in gas secretion during depth changes
• Effect of altitude on affinity
• Role of organic phosphates
• Burrowing animals
• Diving mammals, birds and reptiles
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• Invertebrate dissociation

CO2 transport

• Bicarbonate and carbonate
• Carbonic anhydrase
• Carbamino hemoglobin

Reading

Eckert Animal Physiology-Mechanisms and Adaptations, 5th edition. Randall, Burggren and French. Chapter 13.

Schmidt Nielsen Chapter 2