Current Perspectives on the Functional Design of the Avian Respiratory System
暫譯: 鳥類呼吸系統的功能設計當前觀點

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.

取得肯尼亞內羅畢大學的獸醫學士（BVM）學位及英國利物浦大學的博士（PhD）和獸醫科學博士（DVSc）學位的John N. Maina，曾擔任內羅畢大學的獸醫解剖學教授及南非威特沃特斯蘭大學的人類解剖學教授。目前，他在約翰尼斯堡大學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，主要針對鳥類的肺-氣囊系統及蝙蝠（Chiroptera）的支氣管肺泡肺。他在這個主題上發表了大量的研究成果。