Current Perspectives on the Functional Design of the Avian Respiratory System

Achieving a BVM from the University of Nairobi (Kenya) and PhD and DVSc from the University of Liverpool (UK), John N. Maina has served as a professor of veterinary anatomy at the University of Nairobi and of human anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). He currently holds a position of Research Professor of Zoology at the University of Johannesburg. He has extensively comparatively investigated the functional designs of gas exchangers, mainly the lung-air sac system of birds and the bronchioalveolar lung of bats (Chiroptera). He has considerably published on the subject.

約翰·N·梅納（John N. Maina）獲得了奈洛比大學（University of Nairobi，肯尼亞）的獸醫醫學學士學位（BVM）以及利物浦大學（University of Liverpool，英國）的博士學位（PhD）和獸醫科學博士學位（DVSc）。他曾擔任奈洛比大學的獸醫解剖學教授以及威特沃特斯蘭大學（University of the Witwatersrand，南非）的人體解剖學教授。目前，他在約翰尼斯堡大學（University of Johannesburg）擔任動物學研究教授。他廣泛比較研究了氣體交換器的功能設計，主要集中在鳥類的肺-氣囊系統和蝙蝠（Chiroptera）的支氣管肺泡系統。他在這一主題上發表了大量的研究成果。