Anoxia: Tolerance in Reptiles
- 8 February 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 139 (3554), 492-493
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.139.3554.492
Abstract
Measurements of the lengths of time various reptiles can continue to breathe in atmospheres of nitrogen have shown that turtles are several times more tolerant of these conditions than are other reptiles. The major correlate of this tolerance is taxonomic, rather than ecological.Keywords
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