Did lungs and the intracardiac shunt evolve to oxygenate the heart in vertebrates?

Paleobiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 358-372

  Farmer, Colleen ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); LEPIDOSAURIA; MAMMALIA; PISCES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031403491     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300019734     Document Type: Article

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