Euryhaline fishes /

• Other Authors: McCormick, Stephen D. (Stephen Daniel), Farrell, Anthony Peter, 1952-, Brauner, Colin J.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; Waltham, MA : Academic Press, 2013.
• Series: Fish physiology ; v. 32.
• Subjects: Osmoregulation.; Fishes > Physiology.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Anatomy & Physiology.; Fishes > physiology.; Water-Electrolyte Balance.; Electronic books.

The need for ion and water homeostasis is common to all life. For fish, ion and water homeostasis is an especially important challenge because they live in direct contact with water and because of the large variation in the salt content of natural waters (varying by over 5 orders of magnitude). Most...