Conceptual Breakthroughs in Comparative Animal Physiology
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Product details:
- Publisher Elsevier Science
- Date of Publication 1 October 2026
- ISBN 9780128173664
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 450 g
- Language English 700
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Conceptual Breakthroughs in Comparative Animal Physiology tells a story of innate human curiosity about the natural world, and a deeply creative discipline, shaped by varied environments, unusual organisms, elegant experiments, and the persistent effort to understand how animals work and why they work the way they do-along the way discovering “adaptations and mechanisms of the most surprising character”.
Written by two leading experts in the field, each chapter reflects on the origins of ideas and the approach of turning natural diversity into experimental design. From deserts to oceans, from the anoxia-tolerant animals to endothermic insects, from deep-diving mammals to the integration of “omics,” each chapter follows the discoveries and people who were compelled to modify their view of “what life can do.” The chapters also highlight the long-term influence of key conceptual breakthroughs, demonstrating how insights from comparative physiology have shaped not only the field itself but also, ecology, evolution, and engineering.
As scientists strive to understand the complexity of living systems, the book underscores the inherent integrative nature of comparative physiology, revealing a process that strives to connect genes to organisms and organisms to environments, and providing a framework for understanding the diversity of life. This is an essential resource for undergraduates, graduate students and researchers interested in physiology with its comprehensive synopsis on the field’s foundational history and significant advances.
Table of Contents:
"1. 1878 The ""Milieu Intï¿1⁄2rieur""2. 1929 Nitrogen Excretion in Alkaline Water 3. 1929 The Wisdom of the Body-Homeostasis 4. 1929 Critical Oxygen Tension 5. 1929 The Progress of Physiology: Purpose of Comparative Physiology 6. 1930 Estivation in the African Lung Fish7. 1930 Osmoregulation in Elasmobranchs and Teleost: The multifunction gill 8. 1931 The Root Effect 9. 1932 Body Size and Metabolism-Kleiber's Law 10. 1933 Studies in Aquatic Locomotion 11. 1941 Myogenic endothermy in insects 12. 1940-41 Diving bradycardia 13. 1944 Discontinuous Gas Exchange in Insects 14. 1947 Fry Paradigm-Aerobic Scope 15. 1949 Asynchronous Muscles 16. 1949 Thermoregulation in reptiles 17. 1950 Coulson and Hernandez: The alkaline tide 18. 1950 TNZ, Conductance and Environment 19. 1952 Water Economy in Desert Rodents 20. 1954 Fish without Hemoglobin 21. 1955 Counter-current heat exchange 22. 1955 Gravity and Giraffes 23. 1957 Water Conservation in the Desert-Camels and other mammals 24. 1958 Salt Glands 25. 1961 D/Q and Gas Exchange 26. 1961 Central Pattern Generators 27. 1962 Heat Shock Protein 28. 1963 Water economy of wild bird 29. 1963 Brown Fat as a Thermogenic Organ 30. 1965 Enzyme Adaptations to Temperature 31. 1966 The Time Depth Recorder 32. 1966 Aquatic Gas Exchange Theory 33. 1966 Cardiac Shunts and Physiological Function 34. 1966 Selective Brain Cooling 35. 1968 Metabolic Depression36. 1968 Intrapulmonary chemoreceptors 37. 1971 Field metabolic rates-doubly labelled water 38. 1972 Anaerobic Scope and Anaerobic Capacity 39. 1972 Comparative Respiratory Physiology: The Gottingen Models 40. 1972 Costs of Locomotion: swimming -flying-running 41. 1972 Osmoregulatory compromise in the fish gill 42. 1972 The Buffalo Curve- Imidazole Alphastat Hypothesis 43. 1972 The Perfect Experiment 44. 1973 Aerodynamics of insect flight 45. 1974 Homeoviscous adaptations 46. 1975 Fever and Survival 47. 1977 Mechanisms of Terrestrial Locomotion 48. 1979 Evolution of Endothermy 49. 1980 Aerobic Dive Limit 50. 1981 Hydrothermal Vents and H2S metabolism 51. 1981 Safety Factors 52. 1981 Symmorphosis 53. 1982 Intracellular and extracellular acid base 54. 1983 Adrenergic stimulation of RBCs 55. 1983 Strong Ion Difference 56. 1985 Hypoxia and temperature regulation 57. 1985 The Work Loop Technique 58. 1986 Channel arrest 59. 1987 Paracellullar absorption of glucose 60. 1987 New Directions in ecological physiology 61. 1987 Tyranny of the Golden Mean 62. 1987 Assigning Priorities 63. 1990 Biomechanics of terrestrial locomotion in mammals64. 1990 Sustained Metabolic Scope (metabolic ceilings) 65. 1990 Experimental Evolution 66. 1993 Running Springs: Speed and Animal Size 67. 1994 Two Species Comparisons 68. 1995 Specific Dynamic Action and the Dynamic Gut 69. 1997 Phenotypic flexibility and organismal design 70. 1998 Time Domains in the Hypoxic Ventilatory Response 71. 1999 Aerodynamics of insect flight 72. 2001 Gene Expression Profiling in Comparative Physiology 73. 2001 The Oxygen and Capacity Limitation of Thermal Tolerance (OCLTT) Hypothesis74. 2006 Conservation Physiology 75. 2010 Unidirectional ventilation in archosaurs76. Future Directions"
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