Comparative Physiology of Osmoregulation in Animals
Author : G. M. O. Maloiy
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : G. M. O. Maloiy
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : A. Pequeux
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642455743
Author : Clifford Ladd Prosser
Publisher : W.B. Saunders Company
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Physiology, Comparative
ISBN :
Author : Interunion Commission on Comparative Physiology
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 1987-07-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387965154
This volume examines the extent to which the design and function of terrestrial and aquatic animals are determined by the physicochemical properties of the media in which they live. The topic is addressed from the viewpoint of scientists representing a variety of disciplines and approaches. Anatomists, biochemists, biophysicists, physiologists and zoologists each contribute their perspectives. The general topics examined include: respiration; acid base balance; osmoregulation; water and ionic exchanges; nutrient acquisition and absorption; nitrogen and sulfur metabolism; locomotion; sensory information and behaviour; energy metabolism; and temperature and evolution. Four or five papers deal with each of these general topics.
Author : K. Schmidt-Nielsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 1978-03-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521216966
This 1978 volume contains papers from contributors to the Third International Conference on Comparative physiology. The Conference selected particular areas for examination. In the first section of this volume the problems of how animals can take up water vapour from the atmosphere are considered as well as advances in studies of how water movements across epithelia are generated by solute movements. The second section deals with how a wide variety of animals, both invertebrate and vertebrate, living under stress in ionically unbalanced environments cope with the unusual difficulties of ionic regulation. In the final section biologists and physicists examine the role of fluid mechanics in biology. Both the theoretical basis of the hydrodynamics and aerodynamics and the biological investigations on the variety of fluid flows encountered inside and around organisms are presented.
Author : C. Ladd Prosser
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 1991-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780471857679
Here is a uniquely modern approach to the study of physiological diversity that builds on the tradition established by C. Ladd Prosser's Comparative Animal Physiology. Responding to the need for a rigorously up-to-date, comprehensive survey of function and integrative systems in a variety of species, which is also easily accessible to the user, Dr. Prosser has delivered a thoroughly revised Fourth Edition in a convenient two-volume format. This carefully designed framework lets each volume zero-in on distinct aspects of comparative physiology normally studied as a whole unit. From the study of genetically replicating molecules to investigations of adaptive modulation, these two companion volumes offer an all-encompassing view of the field. With their contemporary approach, scholarly editing, flexible format, and detailed contents, Neural and Integrative Animal Physiology and Environmental and Metabolic Animal Physiology will stand together as the authoritative source in the field.
Author : Richard W. Hill
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Organism and environment; Energy metabolism; Thermal relationship; Exchanges of salts and water: mechanisms; Exchanges of salts and water: integration; Nitrogen excretion and other aspects of nitrogen metabolism; Renal organs and excretion; Exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide: basic principles, respiratory anvironments, and external respiration; Exchanges of exygen and carbon dioxide: transport in body fluids; Circulation; Metabolic responses to oxygen deficiency and lowered availability of oxygen; The active animal.
Author : C. Richard Taylor
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 1982-04-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521244374
Originally published in 1982, this book was designed to supplement Knut Schmidt-Nielsen's Animal Physiology. Using Schmidt-Nielsen's comparative approach to the study of animal form function, the text pursues in greater detail topics introduced in Animal Physiology. Like the textbook, the Companion is organised according to major environmental features: oxygen, food and energy, temperature, and water, concluding with a section on movement and structure. The papers brought together in this volume were presented in July 1980 to honour Smith-Nielsen's sixty-fifth birthday, at the Fifth International Conference on Comparative Physiology, held in Sandbjerg, Denmark.
Author : August Krogh
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
ISBN :
Osmose.
Author : Richard W. Hill
Publisher : Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN :
This textbook explores the structure and function of animals. Readers will gain knowledge on the diversity, as well as similarities of animal physiologies -- at the microscopic as well as macroscopic level. Topics include general physiology (tissues and organ systems, sensory reception, respiration, digestion etc.), genetics and reproduction, and evolution. Animal physiology is the study of how animals function. This volume is designed to survey molecular and cellular physiology as well as the major physiological systems and how these systems function to maintain homeostasis in various environments.