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Position | Departmental responsibilities | Research Interests | Publications | Further information

Position

Departmental lungfish

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Departmental responsibilities

Entertaining visitors; educating research students; being a "living fossil"; hiding behind a rock, and generally keeping an eye on things.

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Research Interests

Observing human behaviour from an aquatic environment. Elucidating the evolutionary relationship of dipnoans and tetrapods

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Publications

Hone. D.W.E, and Annectens, L.P. 2008. Macrorevolutionary trends in the Lungfish: Dope's rule. Journal of Revolutionary Biology, 245, 587-595

Knorr, W., Prentice, I.C., House J.I., and Annectens, L.P 2007. Long-term sensitivity of lungfish to warming. Nurture, 933, 298-301.

Annectens, L.P, Elliott, TR, Hawkesworth, CJ & Norman, MD. 2007. Tungsten isotope evidence that lungfish contain no contribution from the Earth's core. Nurture, 427, 234-237.

Annectens, L.P., and Benton, M.J. 2006. Living fossils. Journal of Vertebrate Palaeobolony 20, 77-108

Mader, H. and Annectens, L.P. 2006. On the development of highly viscous skins of liquid around bubbles, when sneezing under water. Earth and Sanitary Appliance Letters 93, 47-56.

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Further information

http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/140Sarcopterygii/140.500.html
http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Oddball,%20Lungfish.htm (open in new windows).

Dr Annectens also has his own page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/leonard.p.annectens