Fish respiration and environment / editors, Marisa N. Fernandes. [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fernandes, Marisa N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fishes--Ecology.

Fishes.

Fishes--Respiration.

Gills.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 p.)

Place of Publication:

Enfield, N.H. : Science Publishers, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gills of healthy fishes are their lifeline to meet the challenges arising from their changing environment: oxygen gradient, alkalinity, temperature fluctuations and the added pollutants. The diverse and ever changing aquatic environment has a major impact on the organization of various organ-systems of fishes. This book contains seventeen chapters covering bony fishes which are focal to the current study. The chapters primarily cover fish respiration but also include osmoregulation, these being the two main functions of gills. Concurrently, cardiorespiratory synchronization has been well addre

Contents:

Front cover; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Adaptation of Gas Exchange Systems in Fish Living in Different Environments; Chapter 2: Morpho-physiological Divergence Across Aquatic Oxygen Gradients in Fishes; Chapter 3: Swimbladder-Lung Homology in Basal Osteichthyes Revisited; Chapter 4: The Effects of Temperature on Respiratory and Cardiac Functionof Teleost Fish; Chapter 5: Oxygen Consumption during Embryonic Development of the Mudskipper (Periophthalmusmodestus): Implication for the Aerial Development in Burrows

Chapter 6: Gill Morphological Adjustments to Environment and the Gas Exchange Function Chapter 7: Behavior and Adaptation of Air-breathing Fishes; Chapter 8: The Osmo-respiratory Compromise in Fish: The Effects of Physiological State and the Environment; Chapter 9: Dissolved Oxygen and Gil lMorphometry; Chapter 10: Environmental Influences on the Respiratory Physiology and Gut Chemistry of a Facultatively Air breathing, Tropical Herbivorous Fish Hypostomus regani (Ihering, 1905); Chapter 11: Osmoregulatory and Respiratory Adaptations of Lake Magadi Fish (Alcolapia grahami)

Chapter 12: Respiratory Function of the Carp,Cyprinus carpio (L.): Portrait of a Hypoxia-tolerant Species Chapter 13: Blood Gases of the South American Lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa: A Comparison to Other Air-breathing Fish and to Amphibians; Chapter 14: Transition from Water to Land in an Extant Group of Fishes: Air Breathing and the Acquisition Sequence of Adaptations for Amphibious Life in Oxudercine Gobies; Chapter 15: Respiratory Function in the South American Lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa; Chapter 16: Respiration in Infectious and Non-infectious Gill Diseases

Chapter 17: Control of the Heart in Fish Index; Color Section; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-000-73805-1

0-429-09390-X

1-281-73684-8

9786611736842

1-4398-4254-X

1-57808-553-5

9780429093906

OCLC:

646769356