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Lepidoptera demonstrate the relevance of Murray’s Law to circulatory systems with tidal flow

BACKGROUND: Murray’s Law, which describes the branching architecture of bifurcating tubes, predicts the morphology of vessels in many amniotes and plants. Here, we use insects to explore the universality of Murray’s Law and to evaluate its predictive power for the wing venation of Lepidoptera, one o...

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Autores principales: Schachat, Sandra R., Boyce, C. Kevin, Payne, Jonathan L., Lentink, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8444497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34526028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01130-0