Differential air sac pressures in diving tufted ducks Aythya fuligula

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 2665-2668

  Boggs, Dona F ^a,b   Butler, Patrick J ^a   Wallace, Stacy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sac; Air sac pressure; Arian respiratory system; Aythya filigula; Diving; Tufted duck

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; AIR SAC; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIVING; DUCK; LOCOMOTION; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; AIR SACS; ANIMALS; DIVING; DUCKS; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRESSURE; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE;

ANAS SP.; ANIMALIA; ARIA; AVES; AYTHYA; AYTHYA FULIGULA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032170735     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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