Air-breathing fishes : evolution, diversity, and adaptation / Jeffrey B. Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Jeffrey B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air-breathing fishes--Respiration.

Air-breathing fishes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Academic Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Air Breathing Fishes: Evolution, Diversity, and Adaptation is unique in its coverage of the evolution of air-breathing, incongruously because it focuses exclusively on fish. This important and fascinating book, containing nine chapters that present the life history, ecology, and physiology of many air-breathing fishes, provides an exceptional overview of air-breathing biology.Each chapter provides a historical background, details the present status of knowledge in the field, and defines the questions needing attention in future research. Thoroughly referenced, containing more than 1

Contents:

Front Cover; Air-Breathing Fishes; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. The Biology of Air-Breathing Fishes; Introduction; Environmental Factors Affecting Air-Breathing Fishes; What Is an Air-Breathing Fish?; The Types of Air-Breathing Fishes; Summary and Overview; Chapter 2. Diversity and Natural History; Introduction; The Families of Air-Breathing Fishes; Summary and Overview; Chapter 3. Respiratory Organs; Introduction; Historical; Anatomy and Morphometrics; Types of Air-Breathing Organs; Lungs and Respiratory Gas Bladders; ABOs of the Higher Teleosts

Summary and OverviewChapter 4. Circulatory Adaptations; Introduction; Defining the Problems; Comparative Circulatory Specialization; Pulmonary Circulation; Summary and Overview; Chapter 5. Aerial and Aquatic Gas Exchange; Introduction; Historical; The Air-Breathing Cycle; Respiration; The Metabolic Scope of Air-Breathing Fishes; Respiratory Organ Physiology; Carbonic Anhydrase and Air Breathing; Summary and Overview; Chapter 6. Cardiorespiratory Control; Introduction; Physical and Chemical Aspects; Comparative Aspects of Ventilatory Control: Fishes and Mammals; Studies of Bimodal Control

Studies of Central and Peripheral ControlStudies of ABO Receptors; Cardiorespiratory Reflexes; Summary and Overview; Chapter 7. Blood Respiratory Properties; Introduction; Hemoglobin Function in Air-Breathing Fishes; Other Blood Functions; Summary and Overview; Chapter 8. Metabolic Adaptations; Introduction; Oxygen Access and Intermediary Metabolism; Nitrogen Metabolism; Summary and Overview; Chapter 9. Synthesis; Introduction; The Natural History of Fish Air Breathing; Factors Leading to the Evolution of Air Breathing; Air-Breathing Specializations; Air Breathing and Aquaculture

Fish Air Breathing and the Evolution of TetrapodsSummary and Overview; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-288) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-02497-X

9786611024970

0-08-052549-0

OCLC:

476066203