The role of myoglobin in the evolution of mammalian diving capacity - The August Krogh principle applied in molecular and evolutionary physiology.
After the Devonian tetrapod land invasion, groups of terrestrial air-breathing and endothermic mammals repeatedly went back to live in the sea, relying on air intake at the surface for extended breath-hold dives to forage underwater, often at great depths and even in the coldest oceans. Studies on t...
| Published in: | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier BV
2020
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| Online Access: | http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3107620/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2020.110843 http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3107620/1/Berenbrink%20CBP%20A%20August%20Krogh%20isssue%202020.docx |