Unidirectional pulmonary airflow patterns in the savannah monitor lizard

Emma R. Schachner (), Robert L. Cieri, James P. Butler and C. G. Farmer ()
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Emma R. Schachner: University of Utah
Robert L. Cieri: University of Utah
James P. Butler: Harvard Medical School
C. G. Farmer: University of Utah

Nature, 2014, vol. 506, issue 7488, 367-370

Abstract: Unlike the tidal (in and out) breathing of mammals, bird lungs have unidirectional airflow patterns; here the savannah monitor lizard is shown to have unidirectional airflow too, with profound implications for the evolution of unidirectional airflow in reptiles, predating the origin of birds.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/nature12871

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