Gas exchange potential in reptilian lungs: Implications for the dinosaur-avian connection

Respiration Physiology

Volumn 117, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 73-83

  Hicks, James W ^a   Farmer, Colleen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothermy, dinosaurs; Evolution, dinosaurs to birds; Exercise, maximum O2 uptake, dinosaurs; Metabolism, dinosaurs; Theropoda, dinosaurs

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIRD; EVOLUTION; EXERCISE; GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG VENTILATION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; REVIEW;

EID: 0032885555     PISSN: 00345687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-5687(99)00060-2     Document Type: Article

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