Respiratory function of the plastron in the aquatic bug, Aphelocheirus aestivalis (Hemiptera, Aphelocheiridae)
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Respiratory function of the plastron in the aquatic bug Aphelocheirus aestivalis (Hemiptera, Aphelocheiridae).
The river bug Aphelocheirus aestivalis is a 40 mg aquatic insect that, as an adult, relies totally on an incompressible physical gill to exchange respiratory gases with the water. The gill (called a 'plastron') consists of a stationary layer of air held in place on the body surface by millions of tiny hairs that support a permanent air-water interface, so that the insect never has to renew the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.125328