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9780521106306

Comparative Physiology: Primitive Mammals

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    9780521106306

  • ISBN10:

    0521106303

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-06-04
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Comparative Physiology: Primitive Mammals attempts to dispel the widely held notion that 'primitive' animals are less advanced or less complex than the 'non-primitive'. The term 'primitive', or more accurately 'conservative', refers to the fact that these animals have retained many of the characteristics of their evolutionary ancestors. Because they have been able to adapt to a variety of environmental conditions, these so-called primitive animals should be considered highly successful evolutionary solutions. The papers contained in this volume are the result of the Fourth International Conference on Comparative Physiology held at Crans-sur-Sierre in 1978. The conference, which was sponsored by the Interunion Commission on Comparative Physiology representing the International Unions of Biological Sciences, Physiological Sciences, and Pure and Applied Biophysics, brought together scientists from various fields to discuss the widely scattered information on primitive mammals from the perspective of comparative physiology.

Table of Contents

Biology of the earliest mammals
Biological strategies of living conservative mammals
Milk and mammalian evolution
The reptilian digestive system: general characteristics
The gastrointestinal tract of mammals: major variations
Digestive tract and digestive function in monotremes and nonmacropod marsupials
Form and function of the macropod marsupial digestive tract
The digestive tract: inmsectivore, prosimian, and advanced primate
Evolution of mammalian homeothermy: a two-step process?
Have some mammals remained primitive thermoregulators? Or is all thermoregulation based on equally primitive brain functions?
What is a primitive thermoregulatory system
The evolution of energy metabolism in mammals
Metabolic capabilities of monotremes and the evolution of homeothermy Terence
Energy metabolism in hedgehogs: primitive strategies?
Relations of metabolic rate and body temperature
The smallest insectivores: coping with scarcities of energy and water Stan
Metabolic levels and biological strategies in shrews
The respiratory system of the smallest mammal
Energetics of locomotion: primitive and advanced mammals
Physiological responses to locomotion in marsupials
Mechanics of locomotion in primitive and advanced mammals
Elasticity in the locomotion of mammals
Elastic storage: role of tendons and muscles
Properties and distributions of the fiber types in the locomotory muscles of mammals
Endocrines: problems of phylogeny and evolution
Pituitary-ovarian interactions in marsupials
Placental function and embryonic development in marsupials
Adrenocorticosteroids in prototherian, metatherian and eutherian mammals
The renin-angiotensin system in marsupials
Physiology of the adrenal cortex in monotremes
Physiology of the adrenal cortext in marsupials
Index
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