Video 4

Movie S4. Simulation of lung expansion and contraction. Medial view of the mesh of the right lung showing expansion and contraction over the respiratory cycle. Head is toward the left, dorsal toward the top of the field of view. A complete respiratory cycle (inspiration + expiration) was 4 s.

New insight into the evolution of the vertebrate respiratory system and the discovery of unidirectional airflow in iguana lungs

Robert L. Cieri, Brent A. Craven, Emma R. Schachner, and C. G. Farmer

PNAS. 2014. 111:17218-17223 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405088111