Gill morphological adjustments to environment and the gas exchange function

Fish Respiration and Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 93-120

  Fernandes, Marisa Narciso ^a   Moron, Sandro Estevan ^a   Sakuragui, Marise Margareth ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

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