... 13 6 2000 © 2000 by Company of Biologists 2000 Bufo marinus Rana catesbeiana Coluber constrictor reptile amphibian temperature acid–base physiology pH protein charge electrolyte skeletal muscle blood Studies of acid–base status as a function of temperature...

... electrolyte The response of aquatic animals to hypercapnia is familiar: pH is initially depressed, with a small bicarbonate increase due to non-bicarbonate buffering. After a time, the pH returns partially towards normal through the combined action of ion transport processes in the gills and renal net...

...P. R. H. Wilkes; B. R. Mcmahon ABSTRACT The effects of exposure to 0·94% (300mosmoll −1 ) sodium chloride on plasma electrolyte and acid-base status were examined in the freshwater stenohaline teleost Catostomus commersoni (Lacépède), the white sucker. Four days’ exposure to this maximum sublethal...