Unexpected Positive Buoyancy in Deep Sea Sharks, Hexanchus griseus, and a Echinorhinus cookei

We do not expect non air-breathing aquatic animals to exhibit positive buoyancy. Sharks, for example, rely on oil-filled livers instead of gas-filled swim bladders to increase their buoyancy, but are nonetheless ubiquitously regarded as either negatively or neutrally buoyant. Deep-sea sharks have pa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Nakamura, Itsumi, Meyer, Carl G., Sato, Katsufumi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4489517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26061525
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127667

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4489517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26061525
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127667

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