Animal physiology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sunderland, Massachusetts :
Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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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.