Correction: Rapid maturation of the muscle biochemistry that supports diving in Pacific walruses ( Odobenus rosmarus divergens )

The mathematics used in Eqn 2 in the blood oxygen storage portion of our calculated aerobic dive limit (cADL) shown below:formuladid not adequately represent the assumptions of Ponganis (2011), where on pp. 453–454 he described the oxygenation of the venous blood as follows: (i) one-third of the blood volume is arterial and two-thirds are venous; (ii) initial arterial Hb saturation is 95% and final arterial Hb saturation is 20%; (iii) initial venous O2 content is 5 ml dl−1 less than 95% saturated Hb and final venous O2 content is zero; and (iv) the oxygen-binding capacity of hemoglobin is 1.34 ml O2 g−1 Hb at 100% saturation. The revised equation below is the accurate mathematical interpretation of these assumptions:formulawhere venous O2 is in l, blood volume (BV) is in l kg−1, body mass (M) is in kg, Hb concentration ([Hb]) is in g l−1 blood and the oxygen-binding capacity of hemoglobin is 1.34 ml O2 g−1 Hb.

Tables 13 show the original and revised calculations for blood and total oxygen storage capacity, cADLs assuming a diving metabolic rate that is a hypometabolism, field metabolic rate and 2× Kleiber metabolic rate, as well as maximum attainable dive depth and theoretical search time at 41, 80 and 102 m assuming a diving metabolism of 2× Kleiber metabolic rate and swim speed of 0.8 m s−1.

The estimated blood oxygen storage capacity and cADLs are not largely impacted by using the revised equation, and the major findings and conclusions of the paper remain the same.

The authors apologize to readers for any inconvenience caused.

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