Fishes of the Amazon and their environment : physiological and biochemical aspect /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[1995]
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| Series: | Zoophysiology ;
v. 32. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Amazonian waters
- Geological aspects of the basin
- Dimensions of the region
- Climate
- Climate in the past and in the future
- Precipitation
- Solar radiation
- Temperature
- The Amazon basin
- Division of the Amazon basin
- Basin connections
- Types of water
- Chemical and physical characteristics of Amazon waters
- The main rivers
- Varzea and Igapo
- Lakes
- Annual flood cycle
- Metabolism in Amazon waters
- Recent modifications produced by the activities of man
- Fish culture in the Amazon.
- The Amazon ichthyofauna
- Ichthyofauna composition
- The Elasmobranchii
- The dipneusti
- The teleostei
- Osteoglossiformes and clupeiformes
- Ostariophysi
- Paracanthopterygii and acanthopterygii
- Feeding behaviour
- What do the Amazonian fish eat
- When and how much is eatern
- Migratory cycles
- Breeding patterns
- Larval development
- Communication
- Evolutionary and genetic features
- Karyotypes of fishes of the Amazon
- Isozymes.
- Lactate dehydrogenase
- Malate dehydrogenase
- Allozymes
- Other proteins
- Gas exchange
- The obligatory air-breathers
- The lungfish lepidosiren paradoxa
- Arapaima gigas
- Electrophorus electricus
- Controversial points
- The facultative air-breathers
- Gills as air-breathing organs
- The stomach and intestine as air-greathing organs
- Swim bladder as an accessory air-breathing organ
- Water-breathing
- Avoiding low oxygen conditions
- Skimming the water's surface
- Improving oxygen transfer
- The blood.
- The erythrocytes
- The hemoglobins
- Blood levels and solubility of hemoglobins
- Adjustments of hemoglobin proportions
- Why so many hemoglobin fractions?
- Methemoglobin levels
- Oxygen affinity of hemoglobins
- Effect of temperature on Hb-O2 affinity
- The effect of phosphates on Hb-O2 affinity
- Oxygen affinity of blood
- The root effect
- Intraerythrocytic phosphates
- Ontogenetic changes in the red blood cell organic phosphate concentrations.
- Effects of migration on intraerythrocytic NTP levels
- Environmental factors affecting the red blood cell organic phosphate concentrations
- Interactive effects
- Effects of specific environmental conditions on gas transfer
- Respiratory metabolism
- Optimizing aerobic metabolism
- Air-breathers versus water-breathers
- Oxygen consumption
- Enzyme-level adjustments
- LDH isozymes: channelling pyruvate
- Aerobic versus anaerobic pathways
- Effects of hypoxia
- Metabolites
- Tissue metabolic regulation
- Temperature effects
- Isozyme thermostability.
- Km versus temperature
- Temperature and pH: combined effects
- Q10
- Thermal acclimation
- Electrophoretic pattern
- Km
- Regulating Q10 values
- Metabolic arrest
- Lungfish estivation
- Effects of specific environmental conditions
- Accumulation end products
- Lactate accumulation
- Ammonia accumulation.