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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Lung-Air Sac System of Birds
    sub title: Development, Structure, and Function
  name:
    name part: Maina, John N.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 210 p. 94 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: In biology, few organs have so eluded understanding as the lung-air sac system of birds. Considerable progress recently has been made in filling the gaps in knowledge, however. While summarizing and building on earlier observations and ideas, this book provides cutting-edge details on the development, structure, function, and evolutionary design of the avian respiratory system. Outlining the mechanisms and principles through which biological complexity and functional novelty have been crafted in a unique gas exchanger, this account will provoke further inquiries on the many still-unanswered questions. The specific goal of the book is to highlight the uniqueness of the design of the avian respiratory system and the factors that led to its development.
  table of contents: Flight -- Development -- Qualitative Morphology -- Quantitative Morphology (Morphometry) -- Comparative Respiratory Morphology.
  note: by John N. Maina.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Animal anatomy
  subject:
    topic: Animal physiology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
  classification: QP82-82.2
  classification: 571.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540297277
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29727-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204152029.0
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