Animal Physiology

Preface

Part I Fundamentals of Physiology

Chapter 1 Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
Chapter 2 Molecules and Cells in Animal Physiology
Chapter 3 Genomics, Proteomics, and Related Approaches to Physiology
Chapter 4 Physiological Development and Epigenetics
Chapter 5 Transport of Solutes and Water

Part II Food, Energy, and Temperature

Chapter 6 Nutrition, Feeding, and Digestion
Chapter 7 Energy Metabolism
Chapter 8 Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of Metabolism
Chapter 9 The Energetics of Aerobic Activity
Chapter 10 Thermal Relations
Chapter 11 Food, Energy, and Temperature AT WORK: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid Places

Part III Integrating Systems

Chapter 12 Neurons
Chapter 13 Synapses
Chapter 14 Sensory Processes
Chapter 15 Nervous System Organization and Biological Clocks
Chapter 16 Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Physiology
Chapter 17 Reproduction
Chapter 18 Integrating Systems AT WORK: Animal Navigation

Part IV Movement and Muscle

Chapter 19 Control of Movement
Chapter 20 Muscle
Chapter 21 Movement and Muscle AT WORK: Plasticity in Response to Use and Disuse

Part V Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport

Chapter 22 Introduction to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Physiology
Chapter 23 External Respiration: The Physiology of Breathing
Chapter 24 Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Body Fluids (with an Introduction to Acid- Base Physiology)
Chapter 25 Circulation
Chapter 26 Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport AT WORK: Diving by Marine Mammals

Part VI Water, Salts, and Excretion

Chapter 27 Water and Salt Physiology: Introduction and Mechanisms
Chapter 28 Water and Salt Physiology of Animals in Their Environments
Chapter 29 Kidneys and Excretion (with Notes on Nitrogen Excretion)
Chapter 30 Water, Salts, and Excretion AT WORK: Mammals of Deserts and Dry Savannas
Appendix

Glossary

Index