Animal physiology - Hill, Richard W.; Wyse, Gordon A.; Anderson, Margaret (Sunderland, Massachusetts Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, 2016)
Part I: Fundamentals of physiology -- Animals and environments : function on the ecological stage -- Molecules and cells in animal physiology -- Genomics, proteomics, and related approaches to physiology -- Physiological development and epigenetics -- Transport of solutes and water -- Part II: Food, energy, and temperature -- Nutrition, feeding, and digestion -- Energy metabolism -- Aerobic and anaerobic forms of metabolism -- The energetics of aerobic activity -- Thermal relations -- Food, energy, and temperature at work : the lives of mammals in frigid places -- Part III: Integrating systems -- Neurons -- Synapses -- Sensory processes -- Nervous system organization and biological clocks -- Endocrine and neuroendocrine physiology -- Reproduction -- Integrating systems at work : animal navigation -- Part IV: Movement and muscle -- Control of movement : the motor bases of animal behavior -- Muscle -- Movement and muscle at work : plasticity in response to use and disuse -- Part V: Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and internal transport -- Introduction to oxygen and carbon dioxide physiology -- External respiration : the physiology of breathing -- Transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide in body fluids (with an introduction to acid-base physiology) -- Circulation -- Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and internal transport at work : diving by marine mammals -- Part VI: Water, salts, and excretion -- Water and salt physiology : introduction and mechanisms -- Water and salt physiology of animals in their environments -- Kidneys and excretion (with notes on nitrogen excretion) -- Water, salts, and excretion at work : mammals of deserts and dry savannas.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Physiology, Comparative