By David H. Evans,James B. Claiborne,Suzanne Currie
Following the good fortune of the bestselling 3rd variation, this newly up-to-date and entirely revised fourth variation of The body structure of Fishes presents accomplished insurance of crucial features of the shape and serve as of fishes. It covers the latest advances in addition to primary topics resembling cardiovascular body structure, intestinal delivery, and gill ion uptake. Written through a world workforce of specialists, this ebook comprises clean techniques, with thoroughly new remedy of the unique subject matters and the addition of recent chapters:
- Muscle plasticity
- Membranes and Metabolism
- Oxygen Sensing
- Endocrine Disruption
- Pain Perception
- Cardiac Regeneration
- Neuronal Regeneration
Two many years after the book of the 1st variation, this booklet is still the single released single-volume paintings on fish body structure. every one bankruptcy includes an in depth bibliography, offering readers with the easiest resources from the first literature. The fourth variation presents an immense reference for aquatic biologists, ichthyologists, fisheries scientists, and comparative physiologists.
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