Temperature Tolerance of Some Antarctic Fishes
- 14 April 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 156 (3772) , 257-258
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.156.3772.257
Abstract
Three species of Antarctic fishes which live in constantly near-freezing waters have a markedly low upper-lethal temperature of 6° C ; this is the lowest upper-lethal temperature reported for any organism. The fishes survive supercooling to —2.5°C. Data on brain metabolism in vitro support the hypothesis that the central nervous system is a primary site of thermal injury.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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