Abstract
The differing behaviors of the respiratory gases in media (air, water, blood) and, the special anatomical and functional characteristics of gas exchangers (gills, avian lung, alveolar lung, skin) have introduced anatomical and conceptual difficulties in arriving at a unitary approach to comparative vertebrate gas exchange. A useful step toward the resolution of these problems is the model analysis of Piiper and Scheid (1972, 1975, 1977). They have related their model to selected sets of data for dogfish, bird, dog, and amphibian skin, each analysis emphasizing the peculiarities of these distinct gas exchange systems.
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White, F.N., Bickler, P., Yacoe, M. (1985). Gas Exchange in Intermittently Breathing Turtles. In: Gilles, R. (eds) Circulation, Respiration, and Metabolism. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70610-3_11
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