{"id":6760,"date":"2019-05-29T17:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T21:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2019-06-11T19:37:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:37:56","slug":"super-efficient-blood-oxygen-enables-epic-salmon-migrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/super-efficient-blood-oxygen-enables-epic-salmon-migrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Super-efficient blood oxygen enables epic salmon migrations <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2019.0339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published May 29, 2019 | 17:01 EDT<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/press.royalsociety.org\/thePressRelease.aspx?id=20129\">Brief<\/a>\u00a0from the Royal Society)<br \/>\nBy actively regulating the pH of red blood cells, bony fishes can control how oxygen binds to haemoglobin. They also use an enzyme to promote oxygen unloading in their tissues. This mechanism means the hearts of Atlantic salmon need to pump less blood when the animals are swimming \u2013 which may enable the spawning migrations of all salmon species, and protect against rising\u00a0river temperatures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead author: <\/strong>Till Harter, University of British Columbia &#8211;\u00a0<a>harter@zoology.ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published May 29, 2019 | 17:01 EDT (Brief\u00a0from the Royal Society) By actively regulating the pH of red blood cells, bony fishes can control how oxygen binds to haemoglobin. They also use an enzyme to promote oxygen unloading in their tissues. This mechanism means the hearts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1L2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6772,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions\/6772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}