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Specialized impulse conduction pathway in the alligator heart.
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- Developmental and Evolutionary Heart Adaptations Through Structure-Function Relationships.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2025Review
- Hemodynamics During Development and Postnatal Life.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Review
- Evolutionary Aspects of Chamber Formation and Septation.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Review
- Optical mapping of contracting hearts.The Journal of physiology · 2023Review
- Avian cardiomyocyte architecture and what it reveals about the evolution of the vertebrate heart.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Catecholamines are key modulators of ventricular repolarization patterns in the ball python (Python regius).The Journal of general physiology · 2022Article
- Gap Junctional Communication via Connexin43 between Purkinje Fibers and Working Myocytes Explains the Epicardial Activation Pattern in the Postnatal Mouse Left Ventricle.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Embryonic Onset of Sexually Dimorphic Heart Rates in the Viviparous Fish,Biomedicines · 2021Article
- Defibrillate You Later, Alligator: Q10 Scaling and Refractoriness Keeps Alligators from Fibrillation.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- Development of the Cardiac Conduction System.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2020Review
- Cardiac Morphogenesis: Specification of the Four-Chambered Heart.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2020Review
- Reptiles as a Model System to Study Heart Development.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2020Review
- Low incidence of atrial septal defects in nonmammalian vertebrates.Evolution & development · 2020Article
- Morpho-functional characterization of the heart of Gallus gallus domesticus with special reference to the right muscular atrioventricular valve.Journal of anatomy · 2019Article
- Development and evolution of the metazoan heart.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2019Review
- Commemoration of Comparative Cardiac Anatomy of the Reptilia I-IV.Journal of morphology · 2019Article
- Comparative analysis of avian hearts provides little evidence for variation among species with acquired endothermy.Journal of morphology · 2019Article
- Evolutionarily conservedProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
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Abstract
Mammals and birds have a specialized cardiac atrioventricular conduction system enabling rapid activation of both ventricles. This system may have evolved together with high heart rates to support their endothermic state (warm-bloodedness) and is seemingly lacking in ectothermic vertebrates from which first mammals then birds independently evolved. Here, we studied the conduction system in crocodiles (
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