Comprehensive, contemporary, and engaging, Animal Physiology provides evolutionary and ecological context to help students make connections across all levels of physiological scale.
Comprehensive, contemporary, and engaging, Animal Physiology provides evolutionary and ecological context to help students make connections across all levels of physiological scale.
Richard W. Hill, Michigan State University Margaret Anderson, Emerita, Smith College Daniel Cavanaugh, Loyola University Chicago
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * Part I Fundamentals of Physiology * Chapter 1 Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage * Chapter 2 Molecules and Cells in Animal Physiology * Chapter 3 Genomics, Proteomics, and Related Approaches to Physiology * Chapter 4 Physiological Development and Epigenetics * Chapter 5 Transport of Solutes and Water * Part II Food, Energy, and Temperature * Chapter 6 Nutrition, Feeding, and Digestion * Chapter 7 Energy Metabolism * Chapter 8 Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of Metabolism * Chapter 9 The Energetics of Aerobic Activity * Chapter 10 Thermal Relations * Chapter 11 Food, Energy, and Temperature AT WORK: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid Places * Part III Integrating Systems * Chapter 12 Neurons * Chapter 13 Synapses * Chapter 14 Sensory Processes * Chapter 15 Nervous System Organization and Biological Clocks * Chapter 16 Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Physiology * Chapter 17 Reproduction * Chapter 18 Integrating Systems AT WORK: Animal Navigation * Part IV Movement and Muscle * Chapter 19 Control of Movement * Chapter 20 Muscle * Chapter 21 Movement and Muscle AT WORK: Plasticity in Response to Use and Disuse * Part V Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport * Chapter 22 Introduction to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Physiology * Chapter 23 External Respiration: The Physiology of Breathing * Chapter 24 Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Body Fluids (with an Introduction to Acid- * Base Physiology) * Chapter 25 Circulation * Chapter 26 Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport AT WORK: Diving by Marine Mammals * Part VI Water, Salts, and Excretion * Chapter 27 Water and Salt Physiology: Introduction and Mechanisms * Chapter 28 Water and Salt Physiology of Animals in Their Environments * Chapter 29 Kidneys and Excretion (with Notes on Nitrogen Excretion) * Chapter 30 Water, Salts, and Excretion AT WORK: Mammals of Deserts and Dry Savannas * Appendix A The Système International and Other Units of Measure * Appendix B Prefixes Indicating Orders of Magnitude * Appendix C Gases at Standard Temperature and Pressure * Appendix D Logarithms * Appendix E Exponential and Allometric Equations * Appendix F Phylogenetically Independent Contrasts * Appendix G The Standard Amino Acids * Appendix H Basic Physics Terms * Appendix I Summary of Major Bloodborne Hormones in Mammals * E-book/online only: * Appendix J Fitting Lines to Data * Appendix K Mitosis and Meiosis * Glossary * Index
* Preface * Part I Fundamentals of Physiology * Chapter 1 Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage * Chapter 2 Molecules and Cells in Animal Physiology * Chapter 3 Genomics, Proteomics, and Related Approaches to Physiology * Chapter 4 Physiological Development and Epigenetics * Chapter 5 Transport of Solutes and Water * Part II Food, Energy, and Temperature * Chapter 6 Nutrition, Feeding, and Digestion * Chapter 7 Energy Metabolism * Chapter 8 Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of Metabolism * Chapter 9 The Energetics of Aerobic Activity * Chapter 10 Thermal Relations * Chapter 11 Food, Energy, and Temperature AT WORK: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid Places * Part III Integrating Systems * Chapter 12 Neurons * Chapter 13 Synapses * Chapter 14 Sensory Processes * Chapter 15 Nervous System Organization and Biological Clocks * Chapter 16 Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Physiology * Chapter 17 Reproduction * Chapter 18 Integrating Systems AT WORK: Animal Navigation * Part IV Movement and Muscle * Chapter 19 Control of Movement * Chapter 20 Muscle * Chapter 21 Movement and Muscle AT WORK: Plasticity in Response to Use and Disuse * Part V Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport * Chapter 22 Introduction to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Physiology * Chapter 23 External Respiration: The Physiology of Breathing * Chapter 24 Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Body Fluids (with an Introduction to Acid- * Base Physiology) * Chapter 25 Circulation * Chapter 26 Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport AT WORK: Diving by Marine Mammals * Part VI Water, Salts, and Excretion * Chapter 27 Water and Salt Physiology: Introduction and Mechanisms * Chapter 28 Water and Salt Physiology of Animals in Their Environments * Chapter 29 Kidneys and Excretion (with Notes on Nitrogen Excretion) * Chapter 30 Water, Salts, and Excretion AT WORK: Mammals of Deserts and Dry Savannas * Appendix A The Système International and Other Units of Measure * Appendix B Prefixes Indicating Orders of Magnitude * Appendix C Gases at Standard Temperature and Pressure * Appendix D Logarithms * Appendix E Exponential and Allometric Equations * Appendix F Phylogenetically Independent Contrasts * Appendix G The Standard Amino Acids * Appendix H Basic Physics Terms * Appendix I Summary of Major Bloodborne Hormones in Mammals * E-book/online only: * Appendix J Fitting Lines to Data * Appendix K Mitosis and Meiosis * Glossary * Index
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