Transport: blood and circulation

The blood system transports nutrients, oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogenous wastes; other functions include defence. Fish have a closed, single circulation in which blood is pumped by a contractile heart via a ventral aorta to the gills, then via the dorsal aorta to vessels supplying the tissues a...

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Hauptverfasser:	Burton, Derek, Burton, Margaret
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Fishes (ichthyology) Freshwater biology, limnology Vertebrates
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