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  title info:
    title: Homeostasis in desert reptiles
  name:
    name part: Bradshaw, S. D. (Sidney Donald)
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 213 pages, (4 pages of plates) : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  table of contents: The Osmotic anatomy of the reptiles -- Evidence for homeostasis -- A Comparative account -- Water and electrolytes in reptiles as a group -- Conclusions -- Water and electrolyte homeostasis -- Basic concepts -- The Maintenance of homeostasis -- Regulatory responses -- The Concept of stress -- Effector systems -- Kidney morphology -- Derivation of renal parameters -- Teh Cloacal-colonic complex in reptiles -- The Cephalic salt-secreting glands -- Osmoregulation in crocodiles, alligators and chelonians -- Extent of environmental exchange -- Kidney and cloaca -- Salt-excreting glands -- Desert tortoises -- Osmoregulation in lizards -- Hypernatraemia and hyperkalaemia in lizards -- Studies of the agamid genus amphibolurus (ctenophorus and pogona) in australia.
  table of contents: The Desert iguana (dipsosaurus dorsalis) in north america -- The Chuckwallas (sauromalus obesus and S. hispidus) -- Two saharan lizards: le fouette-queue (uromastix acanthinurus) and the varanid varanus griseus -- The Mountain or thorny devil (moloch horridus) -- Osmoregulation in snakes -- Conclusions -- Activity and hormonal control of excretory organs -- Avant propos -- The Kidney -- Renal clearances and the handling of water and solutes.
  table of contents: Neurohypophysial hormones -- Adrenocortical hormones -- Localisation of action of arginine vasotocin in kidney tubules -- The Cloacal-colonic complex -- Cephalic salt-secreting glands -- Conclusion -- Thermal homeostasis -- Generalities -- The Interpretation of field studies -- Physiological mechanisms -- Metabolic characteristics of ectotherms -- Sources of heat production in reptiles -- Thermal hysterisis and changes in dermal vascularity -- Panting and evaporative heat loss -- The Pineal eye and photoperiod -- Hormonal influences on thermoregulation.
  table of contents: Behavioural mechanisms -- The Neuronal basis for thermoregulation -- Maintenance of thermal homeostasis in the field -- Conclusion.
  note: S. Donald Bradshaw.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-198) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Reptiles
    topic: physiology
  subject:
    topic: Adaptation, Physiological
  subject:
    topic: Homeostasis
  subject:
    topic: Desert Climate
  classification: QL669.2 .B74 1997
  classification: 597.9/0452652
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Adaptations of desert organisms
  identifier: 3540592644 (hbk : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 96043589
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 960910
    record change date: 20191203081455.0
    record identifier: in00004481908