Animal physiology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hill, Richard W.
Other Authors: Wyse, Gordon A., Anderson, Margaret, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sunderland, Massachusetts : Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, [2016]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Animals and environments : function on the ecological stage
  • Molecules and cells in animal physiology
  • Genomics, proteomics, and related approaches to physiology
  • Physiological development and epigenetics
  • Transport of solutes and water
  • Nutrition, feeding, and digestion
  • Energy metabolism
  • Aerobic and anaerobic forms of metabolism
  • The energetics of aerobic activity
  • Thermal relations
  • Food, energy, and temperature at work : the lives of mammals in frigid places
  • Neurons
  • Synapses
  • Sensory processes
  • Nervous system organization and biological clocks
  • Endocrine and neuroendocrine physiology
  • Reproduction
  • Integrating systems at work : animal navigation
  • Control of movement : the motor bases of animal behavior
  • Muscle
  • Movement and muscle at work : plasticity in response to use and disuse
  • Introduction to oxygen and carbon dioxide physiology
  • External respiration : the physiology of breathing
  • Transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide in body fluids (with an introduction to acid-base physiology)
  • Circulation
  • Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and internal transport at work : diving by marine mammals
  • Water and salt physiology : introduction and mechanisms
  • Water and salt physiology of animals in their environments
  • Kidneys and excretion (with notes on nitrogen excretion)
  • Water, salts, and excretion at work : mammals of deserts and dry savannas.