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Article: Synchrotron enables revolutionary discovery about how some insects breathe.
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- Life Science Weekly
- Article date:
- February 10, 2003
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2003 FEB 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Recent research shows that insects and humans have something surprising in common: some six-legged species take in oxygen using a similar means to the way we fill our lungs.
Scientists from the Field Museum and Argonne National Laboratory, both in Chicago, Illinois, and from Clemson University, South Carolina, used a powerful X-ray imaging device to get the first comprehensive view of live insects breathing.
"The discovery of this fundamental aspect of respiratory biology for insects could revolutionize the field of insect physiology," said lead author Mark Westneat, associate curator of zoology at the Field ...