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1 | Farmer, Colleen G. | Right-to-left shunt of crocodilians serves digestion | All amniotes except birds and mammals have the ability to shunt blood past the lungs, hut the physiological function of this ability is poorly understood. We studied the role of the shunt in digestion in juvenile American alligators in the following ways. First, we characterized the shunt in fasting... | Postprandial; Alligators; Gastrointestinal | 2008 |