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Calcified gill filaments increase respiratory function in fishes

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The morphology of fish gills is closely linked to aerobic capacity and tolerance of environmental stressors such as hypoxia. The importance of ...
The Spokesman-Review

Ask Dr. Universe: Most fish use gills to breathe, but some have lungs or other ways

When you and I take a deep breath, we pull air into our lungs. That’s because humans are mammals. But fish aren’t mammals. They usually don’t breathe air. They usually don’t have lungs. That’s what I ...
Nature

Movements and Co-ordination of the Latero-frontal Cilia of the Gill Filaments of Mytilus

THE observations described here were made on very young mussels (Mytilus edulis) in which the valves are sufficiently transparent to allow direct observation of the gill cilia in the intact animal. In ...
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Schistobrachia jordaanae n. sp. (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Lernaeopodidae) from Gill Filaments of a Diamond Ray (Gymnura natalensis) Captured in the Indian Ocean and a Key ...

Schistobrachia jordaanae n. sp. (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Lernaeopodidae) is described from adult female specimens collected from gill filaments of a diamond ray Gymnura natalensis (Gilchrist and ...
EurekAlert!

The first 419-million-year-old galeaspid fossil completely preserved with gill filaments in the first branchial chamber (IMAGE)

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