... pharmacologically stimulated with the respiratory stimulant doxapram reveals that ventilation in alligators is energetically cheap. Ventilatory response Oxygen consumption Cost of ventilation Reptile Ventilator stimulant Chemoreceptor Pulmonary ventilation requires energy to overcome elastic...

.... The advantage of shifting the mode of ventilation is that this is likely to reduce the energetic cost of gill ventilation by transferring the work of breathing from the buccal and opercular pumps to the swimming muscles. Several approaches have been employed to estimate the cost of ventilation in resting fish...