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One important aspect of respiration is the exchange of the respiratory gases between blood and respiratory media. As respiratory gases I shall consider only the two classical ones, oxygen and carbon dioxide. In spite of the evident physical differences between the respiratory media, air and water, ail vertebrates are using hemoglobin as a common though chemically modified respiratory pigment. In consequence the blood gas trans-port in ail vertebrates shares some basic physicochemical properties. On the other hand, water as breathing medium imposes some peculiarities on blood gas transport in fish, as for instance, the low PC02 which results stringently from the Fenn-Rahn gas exchange diagram for water. In addition, water offers, frequently the problem of poor oxygen availability which has lead during evolution to special features of the hemoglobin molecule. To illustrate some of these points I have chosen the blood gas transport in carp. Carp hemoglobin has been very thoroughly studied biochemically [for ref. see Chien and Mayo (1980a, b) and Perutz and Brunori (1982), and there are also extensive studies as to the adaptation to hypoxia (for ref. see Weber and Lykkeboe 1978)
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Albers, C. (1985). Gas Transport Properties of Fish Blood. In: Gilles, R. (eds) Circulation, Respiration, and Metabolism. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70610-3_6
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