Organ Growth and Oxygen Consumption in Laysan Albatross Embryos
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AasraAcr.-Embryonic oxygen consumption and organ growth were measured in the Laysan Albatross (Diomedea immutabilis). The logarithms of oxygen consumption and organ mass increased linearly with the logarithm of whole-embryo wet mass. The rate of growth of skeletal muscle and the gastro-intestinal tract exceeded that of the embryo as a whole, while the heart, lungs, brain, and eyes grew more slowly. The absence of a discernible effect of pipping of the egg on oxygen consumption and organ growth in the embryonic albatross, in contrast to a previous report for the Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Pufinm pacificus), was attributed to a different sequence of events during pipping in the two species. Received 6 July 1992, accepted I5 April 1993.
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