Air-breathing fishes evolution, diversity, and adaptation /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Graham, Jeffrey B.
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: ScienceDirect (Online Service)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: San Diego : Academic Press, c1997.
• Θέματα: Air-breathing fishes; Air-breathing fishes > Respiration; Air-breathing fishes > Respiration.; Air-breathing fishes.; Αερόβια ψάρια; Αερόβια ψάρια > Αναπνοή; Electronic books.; Ηλεκτρονικό βιβλίο

Air Breathing Fishes: Evolution, Diversity, and Adaptation is unique in its coverage of the evolution of air-breathing, incongruously because it focuses exclusively on fish. This important and fascinating book, containing nine chapters that present the life history, ecology, and physiology of many a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The Biology of Air-Breathing Fishes:
• Introduction.
• Environmental Factors Affecting Air-Breathing Fishes.
• What is an Air-Breathing Fish?
• The Types of Air-Breathing Fishes.
• Summary and Overview.
• Diversity and Natural History:
• Introduction.
• The Class Osteicthyes: Families of Air-Breathing Fishes.
• Summary and Overview.
• Respiratory Organs:
• Introduction.
• Historical.
• Anatomy and Morphometrics.
• Types of Air-Breathing Organs.
• Lungs and Respiratory Gas Bladders.
• ABOs of the Higher Teleosts.
• Circulatory Adaptations:
• Introduction.
• Defining the Problems.
• Comparative Circulatory Specialization.
• Pulmonary Circulation: Lungfishes and Primitive Actinoperterygians.
• Summary and Overview.
• Aerial and Aquatic Gas Exchange:
• Introduction.
• Defining the Problems.
• Comparative Circulatory Specialization.
• Pulmonary Circulation: Lungfishes and Primitve Actinoperterygians.
• Summary and Overview.
• Cardiorespiratory Control:
• Introduction.
• Physical and Chemical Aspects.
• Comparative Aspects of Ventilatory Control: Fishes and Mammals.
• Studies of Bimodal Control. Studies of Central and Peripheral Control.
• Studies of ABO Receptors.
• Cardiorespiratory Reflexes.
• Summary and Overview.
• Blood Respiratory Properties:
• Introduction. Hemoglobin Function in Air-Breathing
• Fishes.
• Other Aspects of Air-Breathing Fish Blood Function.
• Summary and Overview.
• Metabolic Adaptations:
• Introduction.
• Oxygen Access and Intermediary Metabolism.
• Nitrogen Metabolism.
• Summary and Overview.
• Synthesis:
• Introduction.
• The Natural History of Fish Air Breathing.
• Factors Leading to the Evolution of Air Breathing.
• Air-Breathing Specializations.
• Air Breathing and Aquaculture.
• Fish Air Breathing and the Evolution of Tetrapods.
• References.
• Index.