Fig. 4. Simplified representation of mean age-related changes in body mass (top),
whole-animal maximal oxygen consumption (middle) and mass-specific maximal
oxygen consumption (bottom) in male (broken lines) and female (solid lines)
deer mice. For maximal oxygen consumption, heavy lines indicate
O2max (exercise)
and thin lines indicate
O2sum (cold
exposure). Lines are derived from `breakpoint' (piecewise) regressions based
on data in Fig. 2.