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The Right-to-Left Shunt of Crocodilians Serves Digestion

To: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: The Right-to-Left Shunt of Crocodilians Serves Digestion
From: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:16:08 +1030
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A recent study suggests that shunting deoxygenated blood directly to the stomach boosts stomach acid production in crocodilians ten-fold:

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/524150?cookieSet=1

The ScienceNow condensed version: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/206/1

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Dann Pigdon
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Melbourne, Australia             http://heretichides.soffiles.com
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