Animals and Environmental Fitness: Physiological and Biochemical Aspects of Adaptation and Ecology
Invited Lectures
- 1st Edition - October 2, 2013
- Latest edition
- Editor: R. Gilles
- Language: English
Animals and Environmental Fitness, Volume 1: Invited Lectures is a collection of papers that tackles ecological concerns. The materials of the book are organized according the main… Read more
Animals and Environmental Fitness, Volume 1: Invited Lectures is a collection of papers that tackles ecological concerns. The materials of the book are organized according the main issue of their contents. The text first tackles the chemical factors of the environment, such as water and oxygen availability, ecomones, and pollutants. The other half of the book encompasses the physical factors of the environment that include light, pressure, and temperature. The text will be of great use to scientists who study the interaction between flora, fauna, and the total environment.
Introductory Comments
Marcel Florkin and the System of Biochemistry
Part A: Chemical Factors of the Environment
I. Water Availability - Osmoregulation
1. Cell Volume Control as Studied in Crustacean Tissues
2. Amino Acid Transport Coupled to Cell Volume Regulatior in Anisosmotic Media
3. Cell Volume Regulation in Mammalian Cells
4. Salt Transport Mechanisms in Branchial Epithelia
5. Water Transport in the Vertebrate Intestine
6. Renal Mechanisms for Osmoregulation in Reptiles and Birds
7. The Principle of Spatial Correlation
II. Oxygen Availavility - Aerobiosis - Anaerobiosis
8. Model Analysis of Gas Exchange Organs in Vertebrates
9. Circulation of Blood in Vertebrate Oxygen Transport
10. Respiratory Proteins: Molecular Interfaces between the Organism and Its Environment
11. Distribution of Respiratory Pigments and the Role of Anaerobic Metabolism in the Lamellibranch Molluscs
12. Energy Metabolism in Bivalves and Cephalopods
III. Economics
13. Arthropods and Ecomones: Better Fitness through Ecological Chemistry
14. Chemoreception in Arthropods: Sensory Physiology and Ecological Chemistry
15. Chemical Communication in the Marine Environment
16. Chemical Ecology of Terrestrial Vertebrates
IV. Pollutants
17. Heavy Metal Pollutants in the Aquatic Environment
18. Chemical Pollutants in the Terrestrial Environment
19. Genetic Toxicology and the Marine Environment
Part B: Physical Factors of the Environment
20. Chronobiological Variations and Their Implications in Pharmacological Responses
21. Molecular Regulatory Mechanisms of Nyctohemeral Rhythms in Hepatic Cell Division and Function
22. Light as an Entraining agent for Biological clocks
VI. Pressure
23. The Tolerance of Animals to Pressure
24. Osmoregulation and Ion Transport at High Hydrostatic Pressure
25. Pressure Effects on Biochemical Systems
26. Pressure Mediated Osmoregulatory Processes and Pressure Sensing Mechanism
VII. Temperature
27. Living Organisms and Low Ambient Temperatures A Historical Survey
28. Enzyme Regulation, Metabolic Rate and Acid-Base State in Hibernation
29. Hibernation and Membrane Function in Reptiles
30. Phospholipids and Membrane Function during Temperature Adaptation
31. The Regulation of Membrane Lipid Composition in thermally-Acc1imated Poikilotherms
32. The Maintenance of Energy Balance in Marine Invertebrates Exposed to Changes in Environmental Temperature
33. Biological Antifreezes and Survival in Freezing Environments
Subject Index
Taxonomic Index
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 2, 2013
- Language: English
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