Evolution; international journal of organic evolutionAnimalsLarvaAnuraLungBiological Evolution
Lungless tadpoles breathe fresh air into hypotheses for tetrapod lung loss and trait regain.
Jackson R Phillips, Pedro Henrique Dos Santos Dias, Molly C Womack
Published: 202510.1093/evolut/qpaf192
Abstract
The environmental factors associated with adaptive trait loss and the extent to which lost traits can be regained have been subject to much speculation and debate in evolutionary biology. We use tadpole lungs to test if previously proposed environmen…
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