Browsing Journal Articles by Subject "Urea excretion"
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Urea excretion as a strategy for survival in a fish living in a very alkaline environment.
(Nature Publishing GroupDepartment of Veterinary Anatomy and Physiology, University of Nairobi, 1989-01)Ammonia is toxic to all vertebrates. It can be converted to the less toxic urea, but this is a metabolically expensive process found only in terrestrial vertebrates that cannot readily excrete ammonia and marine fish that ...