Animal osmoregulation / Timothy J. Bradley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradley, Timothy J.

Series:

Oxford animal biology series.

Oxford animal biology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Osmoregulation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 168 pages) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Osmoregulation and water balance are essential topics in animal physiology. This book starts with the physical properties of water, and the influence that it has on biological design. It then looks at the effect of the environment on physiology. Finally it studies how the evolutionary history of the animal influences the solution employed.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1 The properties of water

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The structure of pure water

1.3 Some unusual attributes of water

1.4 The colligative properties of water

1.5 The activity coefficient

1.6 The activity of water

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2 Osmosis

2.1 The phenomenon of osmosis

2.2 The reflection coefficient

2.3 Osmotic pressure

3 The interaction of water with organic solutes

3.1 The effects of polar solutes

3.2 The primary structure of proteins

3.3 The secondary and tertiary structure of proteins

3.4 The quaternary structure of proteins

3.5 The interaction of lipids with water in the cell

3.6 Membranes are ubiquitous

4 The need for, and often conflicting issues of, osmoregulation and volume regulation

4.1 Osmotic regulation

4.2 Volume regulation

4.3 Compatible solutes

5 Osmoconformers

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Marine invertebrates

5.3 Osmoconforming chordates

6 Hyporegulators

6.1 Introduction

6.2 General principles

6.3 Marine teleosts

6.4 Marine reptiles

6.5 Marine birds

6.6 Marine mammals

6.7 Saline-tolerant mosquitoes

6.8 Brine flies

6.9 Crustaceans (brine shrimp)

7 Hyper-regulators: life in fresh water

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Freshwater fish

7.3 Amphibians

7.4 Reptiles

7.5 Birds and mammals

7.6 Insects

7.7 Crayfish

7.8 Mollusks

7.9 Freshwater amoebae

7.10 Summary

8 Terrestrial animals

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The terrestrial environment can be associated with enormous gradients for the activity of water

8.3 Osmoregulatory strategies among terrestrial animals.

8.4 Terrestrial vertebrates

8.5 Water uptake by arthropods from a subsaturated atmosphere

9 Membranes as sites of energy transduction

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Mitochondrial ATP production

9.3 Vertebrate intestinal epithelial cells

9.4 The integument of marine larvae

9.5 Conclusions

10 Transport of ions and water in epithelia: molecular insights

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Insect Malpighian tubules

10.3 The mitochondria-rich cells of freshwater animals

10.4 The collecting tubule of the mammalian kidney

10.5 On the more general distribution of aquaporins

11 Volume and osmotic regulation

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Cell volume regulation

11.3 Sensing osmotic concentration

11.4 Osmotic homeostasis in insects

11.5 The mammalian kidney

11.6 Summary

Index

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Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9786611985448

9780191546976

0191546976

9780191728273

0191728276

9781281985446

1281985449

OCLC:

437092653