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Animal osmoregulation /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bradley, Timothy J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Oxford animal biology series.
Subjects:
Osmoregulation.
Water-Electrolyte Balance.
Animals.
Table of Contents:
  • The properties of water
  • Osmosis
  • The interaction of water with organic solutes
  • The need for, and often conflicting issues of, osmoregulation and volume regulation
  • Osmoconformers
  • Hyporegulators
  • Hyper-regulators: life in fresh water
  • Terrestrial animals
  • Membranes as sites for energy transduction
  • Transport of ions and water in epithelia: molecular insights
  • Volume and osmotic regulation.