Phylogenetic and Biochemical Perspectives
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Phylogenetic and Biochemical Perspectives

  1. 362 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Phylogenetic and Biochemical Perspectives

About this book

This new series on The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Fishes grew out of the demand for state-of-the-art review articles in a rapidly expanding field of research. Up to the present, most research literature on biochemistry involved rats and humans, but new breakthroughs in the piscine setting have indicated that the field is ready for a review series of its own. Because of funding and experimental availability restrictions, most research in the field has dealt with fish and insects. Within the insect field, comparative biochemistry and comparative physiology have proceeded along independent paths as opposed to the piscine field, where the tendency has been for the latter to envelop the former.This volume sets out to make comparative biochemistry and comparative physiology independent of each other within the piscine setting, another important rationale for this review series as well as detailing the phylogenetic evolution of fishes. The goal of the series is to provide researchers and students with an appropriate balance between experimental results and theoretical concepts.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Phylogenetic and Biochemical Perspectives
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. CHAPTER 1. On the biochemistry and cell physiology of water
  8. CHAPTER 2. Evolution of the fish genome
  9. CHAPTER 3. Evolution of mitochondrial enzyme systems in fish: the mitochondrial synthesis of glutamine and citrulline
  10. CHAPTER 4. Frontiers in the study of the biochemistry and molecular biology of vision and luminescence in fishes
  11. CHAPTER 5. Function and evolution of fish hormonal pheromones
  12. CHAPTER 6. Urea synthesis in fishes: evolutionary and biochemical perspectives
  13. CHAPTER 7. The interface of animal and aqueous environment: strategies and constraints on the maintenance of solute balance
  14. CHAPTER 8. Carbon dioxide and ammonia metabolism and exchange
  15. CHAPTER 9. Biochemical aspects of buoyancy in fishes
  16. CHAPTER 10. Movement in water: constraints and adaptations
  17. CHAPTER 11. Endothermy in fish: thermogenesis, ecology and evolution
  18. CHAPTER 12. Temperature: the ectothermy option
  19. CHAPTER 13. Pressure as an environmental variable: magnitude and mechanisms of perturbation
  20. Species index
  21. Subject index