Surviving the flood: Plastron respiration in the non-tracheate arthropod Phrynus marginemaculatus (Amblypygi: Arachnida)

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-19

  Hebets, Eileen A ^a   Chapman, Reginald F ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblypygid; Arachnids; Book lungs; Phrynus; Plastron respiration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARACHNID; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMERSION; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SURVIVAL; TRACHEA;

PHRYNUS MARGINEMACULATUS;

EID: 0033991093     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(99)00096-7     Document Type: Article

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