Fish respiration and environment. (©2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Marisa N. Fernandes [and others].
• Other Names: Fernandes, Marisa N
• Contents: 1. Adaptation of gas exchange systems in fish living in different environments / S.M. Kisia and D.W. Onyango -- 2. Morpho-physiological divergence across aquatic oxygen gradients in fishes / Lauren J. Chapman -- 3. Swimbladder-lung homology in basal osteichthyes revisited / Steven F. Perry -- 4. The effects of temperature on respiratory and cardiac function of teleost fish / Francisco Tadeu Rantin, Ana Lúcia Kalinin and Mogens L. Glass -- 5. Oxygen consumption during embryonic development of the mudskipper (Periophthalmus modestus) : implication for the aerial development in burrows / Aya Etou [and others] -- 6. Gill morphological adjustments to environment and the gas exchange function / Marisa Narciso Fernandes, Sandro Estevan Moron and Marise Margareth Sakuragui -- 7. Behavior and adaptation of air-breathing fishes / Marisa Fernandes-Castilho [and others] -- 8. The osmo-respiratory compromise in fish : the effects of physiological state and the environment / Brian A. Sardella and Colin J. Brauner -- 9. Dissolved oxygen and gill morphometry / Marco Saroglia, Genciana Terova and Mariangela Prati -- 10. Environmental influences on the respiratory physiology and gut chemistry of a facultatively air-breathing, tropical herbivorous fish Hypostomus regani (Ihering, 1905) / Jay A. Nelson [and others] -- 11. Osmoregulatory and respiratory adaptations of Lake Magadi fish (Alcolapia grahami) / Daniel W. Onyango and Seth M. Kisia -- 12. Respiratory function of the carp, Cyprinus carpio (L.) : portrait of a hypoxia-tolerant species / Mogens L. Glass and Roseli Soncini -- 13. Blood gases of the South American lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa : a comparison to other air-breathing fish and to amphibians / Jalile Amin-Naves [and others] -- 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 / Jeffrey B. Graham, Heather J. Lee and Nicholas C. Wegner -- 15. Respiratory function in the South American lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa / Mogens L. Glass [and others] -- 16. Respiration in infectious and non-infectious gill diseases / Mark D. Powell -- 17. Control of the heart in fish / Edwin W. Taylor [and others].
• Publisher Details: Enfield, NH : Science Publishers
• Publication Date: 2007
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 392 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 573.217; Fishes -- Ecology; Fishes -- Respiration; Gills; Poissons -- Respiration; Branchies; Poissons -- Écologie; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical; Fishes -- Ecology; Fishes -- Respiration; Gills; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439842546; 9781578085538; 1578085535
• Related ISBNs: 143984254X; 1578083575; 9781578083572; 1281736848; 9781281736840
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.