Lecture 9, Vert Life

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lungless salamanders
plethodontidae
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disadvantageous buoyancy hypothesis
lungs were lost in a fast flowing aquatic environment as buoyancy from lungs would be bad
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why DBH?
plethodontidae evolved in mesozoic appalachia, fast flwoing moutnain streams, high O2,
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Atretochaona
lungless caecilian
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not adaptations of atretochoana for lunlessness
snake like jaw articulation
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disadvantageous buoyancy hypothesis

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lungs were lost in a fast flowing aquatic environment as buoyancy from lungs would be bad

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why DBH?

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Atretochaona

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not adaptations of atretochoana for lunlessness

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