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The effects of temperature on oxygen consumption of eggs and hatchlings of the nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)
(1989)
1. The oxygen uptake (View the MathML source) of eggs and hatchlings of the Nile crocodile was measured at ambient temperatures (Ta) of 25, 32 and 37°C.
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2. At a Ta of 32°C, View the MathML source was found to be stable ...
Urea excretion as a strategy for survival in a fish living in a very alkaline environment.
(Nature Publishing Group, 1989-01)
Ammonia is toxic to all vertebrates. It can be converted to the less toxic urea, but this is a metabolically expensive process found only in terrestrial vertebrates that cannot readily excrete ammonia and marine fish that ...
Richard Maitland Laws, CBE, PhD, FRS, Dedication. Symposium London Zoological Society 61, v-viii.
(University of Nairobi, 1989)
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Scanning electron microscope study of the morphology of the reptilian lung: the Savanna monitor lizard Varanus exanthematicus and the pancake tortoise Malacochersus tornieri.
(1989)
The morphology of the lungs of two reptilian species, Varanus exanthematicus and Malacochersus tornieri, have been studied on gross preparations, latex casts, and critical-point-dried tissues. The shape of these lungs was ...