Animal Physiology
Author: Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1976-04-22
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780521290753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1976-04-22
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780521290753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David J. Randall
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 814
ISBN-13: 9780716738633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This classic animal physiology text focuses on comparative examples that illustrate the general principles of physiology at all levels of organisation—from molecular mechanisms to regulated physiological systems to whole organisms in their environment. This textbook is an authoritative and complete guide to the field of animal physiology which uses a threefold approach to teaching. The Comparative Approach emphasises basic mechanisms but allows patterns of physiological function in different species to demonstrate how evolution creates diversity. This approach encourages students to appreciate the underlying principles that govern physiological systems. The Experimental Emphasis helps students to understand the process of scientific discovery and shows how our knowledge of physiology continually increases and finally the Integrative Approach presents information about specific physiological systems at all levels of organisation, from molecular interactions to interactions between an organism and its environment.n included.
Author: Philip Carew Withers
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 1096
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This truly comparative text takes a fundamental, biophysical approach toward animal physiology. Students majoring in zoology, biology, or premedicine will study animals ranging from simple invertebrates and protozoans to complex multicellular invertebrates and vertebrates. Emphasis on evolution shows the progressive changes, modifications, and developments of physiological systems from simple to complex animals. Comparisons show the similarities and differences in how animals function, but stress fundamentally similar adaptations in very different animals.
Author: Richard W. (Michigan State University) Hill
Publisher:
Published: 2017-10-05
Total Pages: 828
ISBN-13: 9781605357379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press.
Author: Dr Ian Kay
Publisher: Garland Science
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1000102289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduction to Animal Physiology provides students with a thorough, easy-to-understand introduction to the principles of animal physiology. It uses a comparative approach, with a broad spectrum of examples chosen to illustrate physiological processes from across the animal kingdom. The book covers a wide range of topics, including neurons and nervous systems, endocrine function, ventilation and gas exchange, thermoregulation, gastrointestinal function and reproduction. It also present topics that students typically struggle with, including neuronal membrane function, in a logical, structured format, highlighting to core concepts. Simple analogies are used to clarify important facts.
Author: C. Richard Taylor
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1982-04-30
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780521244374
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1982, this book was designed to supplement Knut Schmidt-Nielsen's Animal Physiology. Using Schmidt-Nielsen's comparative approach to the study of animal form function, the text pursues in greater detail topics introduced in Animal Physiology. Like the textbook, the Companion is organised according to major environmental features: oxygen, food and energy, temperature, and water, concluding with a section on movement and structure. The papers brought together in this volume were presented in July 1980 to honour Smith-Nielsen's sixty-fifth birthday, at the Fifth International Conference on Comparative Physiology, held in Sandbjerg, Denmark.
Author: Richard Hill
Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Incorporated
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780197553602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Comprehensive, contemporary, and engaging, Animal Physiology provides evolutionary and ecological context to help students make connections across all levels of physiological scale. One of the major challenges instructors and students face in Animal Physiology is making connections across levels of biological scale. Animal Physiology addresses this challenge by providing ecological and evolutionary context to the study of physiology at all levels of organization: genome, molecular biology, biochemistry, cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems. Hill's inclusion of ecology and evolution helps readers gain a holistic perspective on animal function and sets Animal Physiology apart from texts that focus more narrowly on physiology. Hill's Animal Physiology is trusted by instructors and students because of its authoritative, current, engaging, and lavishly illustrated presentation.
Author: Richard W. Hill
Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Incorporated
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780878936625
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This full-colour and pedagogy-rich textbook presents all the branches of modern animal physiology, with a strong emphasis on integration among physiological disciplines, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Updated throughout, the third edition also includes a new chapter on physiological development and epigenetics.
Author: Pat Willmer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-03-12
Total Pages: 768
ISBN-13: 1444309226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The new and updated edition of this accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of the comparative physiology of animals within an environmental context. Includes two brand new chapters on Nerves and Muscles and the Endocrine System. Discusses both comparative systems physiology and environmental physiology. Analyses and integrates problems and adaptations for each kind of environment: marine, seashore and estuary, freshwater, terrestrial and parasitic. Examines mechanisms and responses beyond physiology. Applies an evolutionary perspective to the analysis of environmental adaptation. Provides modern molecular biology insights into the mechanistic basis of adaptation, and takes the level of analysis beyond the cell to the membrane, enzyme and gene. Incorporates more varied material from a wide range of animal types, with less of a focus purely on terrestrial reptiles, birds and mammals and rather more about the spectacularly successful strategies of invertebrates. A companion site for this book with artwork for downloading is available at: www.blackwellpublishing.com/willmer/