Blood Oxygen Depletion Is Independent of Dive Function in a Deep Diving Vertebrate, the Northern Elephant Seal

• Jessica U. Meir ,

  * E-mail: jmeir@mgh.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Dept. of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Patrick W. Robinson,

  Affiliation Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

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• L. Ignacio Vilchis,

  Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Gerald L. Kooyman,

  Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Daniel P. Costa,

  Affiliation Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

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• Paul J. Ponganis

  Affiliation Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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