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Urea Production, Acid-base Regulation And Their Interactions In The Lake Magadi Tilapia, A Unique Teleost Adapted To A Highly Alkaline Environment
(Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1,Department of Veterinary Anatomy, University of NairobiDepartment of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071,, 1994)The Lake Magadi tilapia, Oreochromis alcalicus grahami, thrives in highly alkaline geothermal springs and pools surrounding Lake Magadi, Kenya (control pH=9.9, CCO·=173mmoll21), has a functional hepatic ornithine–urea ...