How Bar-Headed Geese Fly Over the Himalayas

The roller coaster flight strategy of bar-headed geese conserves energy during Himalayan migrations

(2015) C. M. Bishop et al.   SCIENCE

Maximum Running Speed of Captive Bar-Headed Geese Is Unaffected by Severe Hypoxia

(2014) Lucy A. Hawkes et al.   PLoS One

Oxidative Stress in Endurance Flight: An Unconsidered Factor in Bird Migration

(2014) Susanne Jenni-Eiermann et al.   PLoS One

High thermal sensitivity of blood enhances oxygen delivery in the high-flying bar-headed goose

(2013) J. U. Meir et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Characteristics and Changes in Air Temperature and Glacier’s Response on the North Slope of Mt. Qomolangma (Mt. Everest)

(2011) Xingguo Yang et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Elevated performance: the unique physiology of birds that fly at high altitudes

(2011) G. R. Scott   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The trans-Himalayan flights of bar-headed geese (Anser indicus)

(2011) L. A. Hawkes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High fliers: The physiology of bar-headed geese

(2010) Patrick J. Butler   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

American Medical Research Expedition to Everest

(2010) John B. West   HIGH ALTITUDE MEDICINE & BIOLOGY

Seasonal migrations of four individual bar-headed geese Anser indicus from Kyrgyzstan followed by satellite telemetry

(2010) Ulrich Köppen et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Molecular Evolution of Cytochrome c Oxidase Underlies High-Altitude Adaptation in the Bar-Headed Goose

(2010) G. R. Scott et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic and structural analysis of the HbA (αA/βA) and HbD (αD/βA) hemoglobin genes in two high-altitude waterfowl from the Himalayas and the Andes: Bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) and Andean goose (Chloephaga melanoptera)

(2010) Kevin G. McCracken et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

New Insights in the Pathogenesis of High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema

(2010) Urs Scherrer et al.   PROGRESS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Acute Mountain Sickness: Pathophysiology, Prevention, and Treatment

(2010) Chris Imray et al.   PROGRESS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Unidirectional Airflow in the Lungs of Alligators

(2010) C. G. Farmer et al.   SCIENCE

Comparative physiology of the pulmonary blood-gas barrier: the unique avian solution

(2009) John B. West   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Control of respiration in flight muscle from the high-altitude bar-headed goose and low-altitude birds

(2009) Graham R. Scott et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Regulation of cerebral blood flow in mammals during chronic hypoxia: a matter of balance

(2009) Philip N. Ainslie et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Differences in in vitro cerebellar neuronal responses to hypoxia in eider ducks, chicken and rats

(2009) Stian Ludvigsen et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Evolution of muscle phenotype for extreme high altitude flight in the bar-headed goose

(2009) G. R. Scott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Body temperature depression and peripheral heat loss accompany the metabolic and ventilatory responses to hypoxia in low and high altitude birds

(2008) G. R. Scott et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY