Environmental physiology of animals /
"This is a core text for modern undergraduate courses in animal physiology, comparative physiology, environmental physiology and physiological ecology. It is also suitable for the physiological components of any animal biology course, and a key resource for degree courses in environmental biolo...
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Science,
[2000]
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Table of Contents:
- The Nature and Levels of Adaptation
- Introduction: comparative, environmental and evolutionary physiology
- The meaning of 'environment'
- The meaning of 'adaptation'
- Comparative methods to detect adaptation
- Physiological response on different scales
- Fundamental Mechanisms of Adaptation
- Introduction: adaptation at the molecular and genome level
- Controlling protein action
- Control of protein synthesis and degradation
- Protein evolution
- Physiological regulation of gene expression
- The Problems of Size and Scale
- The principle of similarity: isometric scaling
- Allometric scaling
- The scaling of metabolic rate
- Scaling of locomotion
- Conclusions: is there a right size to be?
- Central Issues in Comparative Physiology
- Water, Ions and Osmotic Physiology
- Aqueous solutions
- Passive movements of water and solutes
- Non-passive solute movements
- Concentrations of cell contents
- Overall regulation of cell contents
- Animal Water Balance, Osmoregulation and Excretion
- Exchanges occurring at the outer body surface
- Osmoregulation at external surfaces
- Osmoregulatory organs and their excretory products
- Water regulation via the gut
- Regulation of respiratory water exchanges
- Water loss in reproductive systems
- Water gain
- The costs and energetics of regulating water and ion balance
- Roles of nervous systems and hormones
- Metabolism and Energy Supply
- Metabolic intermediaries
- Anaerobic metabolism
- Aerobic metabolism
- Metabolic rates
- Energy budgets.