Extending the Dogfish Model of Co2 Excretion Broadly Across Chondrichthyan Fishes
The Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus suckleyi) has been widely used as a representative species for chondrichthyan CO2 excretion. S. suckleyi has a slow red blood cell (RBC) carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoform, extracellular CA activity, no endogenous plasma CA inhibitor and plasma accessible CAIV at the...