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SUBMITTER: Clarac F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7017437 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Clarac François F Scheyer Torsten M TM Desojo Julia B JB Cerda Ignacio A IA Sanchez Sophie S
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20200113 1793
Studies on living turtles have demonstrated that shells are involved in the resistance to hypoxia during apnea via bone acidosis buffering; a process which is complemented with cutaneous respiration, transpharyngeal and cloacal gas exchanges in the soft-shell turtles. Bone acidosis buffering during apnea has also been identified in crocodylian osteoderms, which are also known to employ heat transfer when basking. Although diverse, many of these functions rely on one common trait: the vasculariza ...[more]