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Fundamental structural aspects and features in the bioengineering of the gas exchangers: comparative perspectives.
(2002)
Over its life, an organism's survival and success are determined by the inventory of vital adaptations that its progenitors have creatively appropriated, devised and harnessed along the evolutionary pathway. Such conserved ...
Some recent advances on the study and understanding of the functional design of the avian lung: morphological and morphometric perspectives
(University of Nairobi, 2002-02)
The small highly aerobic avian species have morphometrically superior lungs while the large flightless ones have less well-refined lungs. Two parabronchial systems, i.e. the paleopulmo and neopulmo, occur in the lungs of ...