Respiratory Adaptations to High‐Altitude Hypoxia in Deer Mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus )

The unremitting hypoxia at high altitudes challenges small endotherms to extract enough oxygen from the environment to survive, exercise, and generate enough heat for thermoregulation. We compared the control of breathing and pulmonary gas‐exchange between highland and lowland populations of deer mice to determine the physiological specializations important for living in high‐altitude hypoxia. Mice were acclimated to normoxia or hypobaric …