Physiological Strategies for Gas Exchange and Metabolism
Part of Society for Experimental Biology Seminar Series
- Editors:
- A. J. Woakes, University of Birmingham
- M. K. Grieshaber, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- C. R. Bridges, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- Date Published: March 1991
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521366021
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Originally published in 1991, this book reviews the various metabolic and functional mechanisms that animals possess in order to live successfully in their own particular, often unique, environments. The book's purpose is to demonstrate both the diversity of responses that are shown (be they biochemical, physiological or behavioural) and to demonstrate the underlying principles of gas exchange and transport for a wide range of diverse organisms. What results is a useful review and analysis of our modern understanding of the respiratory physiology of helminths, crustacea, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. The approach taken by the editors is essentially comparative and the individual authors were chosen so as to provide a useful, complementary view of the subject.
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- Date Published: March 1991
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521366021
- length: 282 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.59kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Does comparative respiratory physiology have a role in evolutionary biology (and vice versa)? W. W. Burggren
Energy metabolism in helminths P. Kohler
The role of carbonic anhydrase within the tissues, with special reference to striated muscle G. Gros
Multiple strategies in oxygen and carbon dioxide transport by haemoglobin F. B. Jensen
Respiratory gas exchange and the regulation of acid-base status in decapodan crustaceans E. W. Taylor, N. M. Whiteley and M. G. Wheatly
Respiration and thermoregulation of amphibians and reptiles S. C. Wood and M. L. Glass
Ventilation, gas exchange and oxygen delivery in flying and flightless birds J. H. Brackenbury
Animal energetics at very low oxygen: information from calorimetry and respirometry E. Gnaiger
pH changes in fish during environmental anoxia and recovery: the advantages of the ethanol pathway G. Van Den Thillart and A. Van Waarde
Respiratory and metabolic adaptations of aquatic annelids to low environmental oxygen tensions A. Toulmond
Respiratory adaptations of aquatic decapod crustaceans and fish to a burrowing mode of life A. C. Taylor and R. J. A. Atkinson
Respiratory adaptations to limited oxygen supply during diving in birds and mammals P. J. Butler
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