Sisters of the sinuses: Cetacean air sacs

Anatomical Record

Volumn 291, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1389-1396

  Reidenberg, Joy S ^a   Laitman, Jeffrey T ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air; Aquatic; baleen whale ; Cetacean Cetacea ; Diverticula; Diverticulum; Diving; Dolphin; Gas; Larynx laryngeal ; Mammal; Marine; Mysticete Mysticeti; Nasal; Odontocete Odontoceti, toothed whale ; Porpoise; Pressure; Pterygoid; Sac; Sinus; Water; Whale

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER; WATER;

AIR SAC; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CETACEA; DOLPHIN; ENVIRONMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMPBACK WHALE; PARANASAL SINUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SKULL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AIR SACS; ANIMALS; CETACEA; DOLPHINS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMPBACK WHALE; PARANASAL SINUSES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SEAWATER; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER;

EID: 58149330634     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20792     Document Type: Review

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