The provenance of alveolar and parabronchial lungs: Insights from paleoecology and the discovery of cardiogenic, unidirectional airflow in the American alligator (alligator Mississippiensis)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 561-575

  Farmer, C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AIRFLOW; BIRD; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMMON ANCESTRY; CROCODILIAN; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; ECTOTHERMY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GAS EXCHANGE; MESOZOIC; MORPHOLOGY; OXYGEN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; RESPIRATION; SELECTION;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; HEART; HISTOLOGY; LUNG; LUNG VENTILATION; PHYSIOLOGY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CROCODILIAN; VETERINARY;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; HEART; LUNG; PULMONARY VENTILATION; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); MAMMALIA;

EID: 77955680535     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605335     Document Type: Article

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