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Morphological grounds for the obligate aerial respiration of an aquatic snail: functional and evolutionary perspectives

The freshwater caenogastropod family Ampullariidae is emerging as a model for a variety of studies, among them, the evolution of terrestriality. A common character of the family is that all its members bear a lung while retaining the ancestral gill. This ensures that many ampullariids are able to in...

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Autores principales: Rodriguez, Cristian, Prieto, Guido I., Vega, Israel A., Castro-Vazquez, Alfredo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8052964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33954023
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10763