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A discussion of “The Pike’s Tale” in Richard Dawkins’ and Yan Wong’s book The Ancestor’s Tale. One mistake: I said “six pharyngeal arteries” when I should’ve said “six pairs of pharyngeal arteries.” All pictures are from Google.
“The Leafy Sea Dragon’s Tale”: youtu.be/tBqWKsdczbs
“Discovery of a specialised anatomical structure in some physoclistous carangid fishes which permits rapid ascent without barotrauma”: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-016-2943-6
“Clarification of the identity of the mammalian fifth pharyngeal arch artery”: eprints.ncl.ac.uk/file_store/production/184287/7AD54A38-B35D-477A-9763-226F0551002C.pdf
“Temperature-Induced Changes in Blood Gas Equilibria in the Albacore, Thunnus Alalunga, a Warm-Bodied Tuna”: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/109/1/21/4164/Temperature-Induced-Changes-in-Blood-Gas
“The Coelacanth’s Tale”: youtu.be/e3dcwqYnQ60
“The Swimbladder of Deep-Sea Fish: The Swimbladder Wall is a Lipid-Rich Barrier to Oxygen Diffusion”: cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-marine-biological-association-of-the-united-kingdom/article/abs/swimbladder-of-deepsea-fish-the-swimbladder-wall-is-a-lipidrich-barrier-to-oxygen-diffusion/52C7BC88C21569BF765FD3D597B2F2B1
“The Inner Ear and its Coupling to the Swim Bladder in the Deep-Sea Fish Antimora rostrata (Teleostei: Moridae)”: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3082141
“ Devonian climate change, breathing, and the origin of the tetrapod stem group”
academic.oup.com/icb/article/47/4/510/632798?login=true
A discussion of “The Pike’s Tale” in Richard Dawkins’ and Yan Wong’s book The Ancestor’s Tale. One mistake: I said “six pharyngeal arteries” when I should’ve said “six pairs of pharyngeal arteries.” All pictures are from Google.
“The Leafy Sea Dragon’s Tale”: youtu.be/tBqWKsdczbs
“Discovery of a specialised anatomical structure in some physoclistous carangid fishes which permits rapid ascent without barotrauma”: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-016-2943-6
“Clarification of the identity of the mammalian fifth pharyngeal arch artery”: eprints.ncl.ac.uk/file_store/production/184287/7AD54A38-B35D-477A-9763-226F0551002C.pdf
“Temperature-Induced Changes in Blood Gas Equilibria in the Albacore, Thunnus Alalunga, a Warm-Bodied Tuna”: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/109/1/21/4164/Temperature-Induced-Changes-in-Blood-Gas
“The Coelacanth’s Tale”: youtu.be/e3dcwqYnQ60
“The Swimbladder of Deep-Sea Fish: The Swimbladder Wall is a Lipid-Rich Barrier to Oxygen Diffusion”: cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-marine-biological-association-of-the-united-kingdom/article/abs/swimbladder-of-deepsea-fish-the-swimbladder-wall-is-a-lipidrich-barrier-to-oxygen-diffusion/52C7BC88C21569BF765FD3D597B2F2B1
“The Inner Ear and its Coupling to the Swim Bladder in the Deep-Sea Fish Antimora rostrata (Teleostei: Moridae)”: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3082141
“ Devonian climate change, breathing, and the origin of the tetrapod stem group”
academic.oup.com/icb/article/47/4/510/632798?login=true
