Patterns of Hemolymph Pressure Related to Tracheal Tube Collapse in the Beetle Pterostichus commutabulis
Rhythmic collapse and reinflation of tracheal tubes is a form of active ventilation that augments convective gas exchange in multiple orders of insects. The underlying mechanism driving this phenomenon is not known. Among other things, tracheal tube collapse could be caused by either direct impingem...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42719 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05182011-131013/ |