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Biology and Biochemistry
Canada
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
90
Citations
33209
World Ranking
2418
National Ranking
75

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 1993 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
  • 1983 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • 1977 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1977 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Peter W. Hochachka was affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their academic career was marked by recognition through multiple prestigious awards.

Throughout their career, Hochachka received notable honors including the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize from the Canada Council in 1993. They were elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983. In 1977, they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and also recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in the same year.

There is no publicly available information regarding specific research papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, fields of study, subfields, or main topics of work related to their career. The profile remains focused on the details of affiliation and awards.

Best Publications

  • Biochemical Adaptation: Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution

    Peter W. Hochachka;George N. Somero

  • Defense strategies against hypoxia and hypothermia

    PW Hochachka

  • Strategies of biochemical adaptation

    Peter W. Hochachka;George N. Somero

  • Unifying theory of hypoxia tolerance: molecular/metabolic defense and rescue mechanisms for surviving oxygen lack.

    P W Hochachka;L T Buck;C J Doll;S C Land

  • Protons and anaerobiosis

    Peter W. Hochachka;Thomas P. Mommsen

  • Mechanism, origin, and evolution of anoxia tolerance in animals☆ ☆

    P.W. Hochachka;P.L. Lutz

  • Allometric cascade as a unifying principle of body mass effects on metabolism

    Charles-A. Darveau;Raul K. Suarez;Russel D. Andrews;Peter W. Hochachka

  • Sites and patterns of protein and amino acid utilization during the spawning migration of salmon

    T. P. Mommsen;C. J. French;P. W. Hochachka

  • Metabolic Arrest and the Control of Biological Time

    Peter W. Hochachka;Michael Guppy

  • Invertebrate facultative anaerobiosis.

    P. W. Hochachka;T. Mustafa

  • Regional blood flow during simulated diving in the conscious Weddell seal

    W. M. Zapol;G. C. Liggins;R. C. Schneider;J. Qvist

  • Biochemical Adaptation to the Environment

    George N. Somero;Peter W. Hochachka

  • Functional significance of isoenzymes in thermal acclimatization. Acetylcholinesterase from trout brain

    John Baldwin;P. W. Hochachka

  • Ethanol: novel end product of vertebrate anaerobic metabolism

    Eric A. Shoubridge;P. W. Hochachka

  • The adaptation of enzymes to temperature

    P.W. Hochachka;G.N. Somero

  • Surviving Hypoxia: Mechanisms of Control and Adaptation

    Peter W. Hochachka

  • Buffering capacity of deproteinized human vastus lateralis muscle.

    W. S. Parkhouse;D. C. McKenzie;P. W. Hochachka;W. K. Ovalle

  • The effect of temperature on catalytic and regulatory functions of pyruvate kinases of the rainbow trout and the Antarctic fish Trematomus bernacchii

    G. N. Somero;P. W. Hochachka

  • Animal Life Without Oxygen: Basic Biochemical Mechanisms

    Peter W. Hochachka;Jeremy Fields;Tariq Mustafa

  • Anoxic suppression of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase and constant membrane potential in hepatocytes: support for channel arrest

    L. T. Buck;P. W. Hochachka

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth B. Storey
Kenneth B. Storey Carleton University
Warren M. Zapol
Warren M. Zapol Harvard University
Christopher D. Moyes
Christopher D. Moyes Queen's University
Thomas W. Moon
Thomas W. Moon University of Ottawa
Helga Guderley
Helga Guderley Université Laval
Dana V. Devine
Dana V. Devine University of British Columbia
Richard W. Brill
Richard W. Brill Virginia Institute of Marine Science
George N. Somero
George N. Somero Stanford University
Patricia M. Schulte
Patricia M. Schulte University of British Columbia
Anthony P. Farrell
Anthony P. Farrell University of British Columbia

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