Blood takes a roller-coaster ride through the heart. Did this breathless journey offer vertebrates an evolutionary short cut, asks David Adam?
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Kilner,P. J., Yang, G. Z., Wilkes, A. J., Mohiaddin, R. H., Firmin, D. N. & Yacoub, M. H. Asymmetric redirection of flow through the heart. Nature 404, 759 2000
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Adam, D. Your twisted heart. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000413-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news000413-9