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发信人: buddyboy (hello), 信区: Military
标 题: 你们猜猜chew shit fun教授最新paper 是啥： peeing-through-the-mouth！
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Apr 2 15:48:25 2013, 美东)
http://www.improbable.com/2012/10/13/dr-shit-fun-chew-on-peeing
peeing-through-the-mouth
We closely follow the research of Dr. Shit Fun Chew of National Institute of
Education, Singapore. Her most recent piece of work is ‘The Chinese soft-
shelled turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis, excretes urea mainly through the mouth
instead of the kidney’ [J Exp Biol 2012 215:ii. ; doi:10.1242/jeb.080614].
She and her co-authors write:
This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that the buccophyaryngeal
cavity constitutes an important excretory route for urea in P. sinensis.
Results indicate that a major portion of urea was excreted through the mouth
instead of the kidney during immersion. [...] These results indicate for
the first time that buccopharyngeal villiform processes (BVP) and rhythmic
pharyngeal movements were involved in urea excretion in P. sinensis.
Apparently, other soft-shelled turtle excrements still leave the body the
usual way. We congratulate Dr Shit Fun Chew on this discovery, and thank
Maarten Keulemans for |
