Gas exchange

Oxygen intake for respiration, also carbon dioxide and, generally, ammonia elimination takes place across gas-exchange surfaces, usually the gills in fish. Water flows across gills, separated by the pharyngeal gill clefts, and supported by gill arches, and which possess highly folded surfaces covere...

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