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Anthony Farrell, Professor, Chair in Sustainable Aquaculture, UBC Centre for Aquaculture and Environmental Research (CAER), and Faculty of Land and Food
Systems, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
John Steffensen, University of Copenhagen
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Fish Physiology, 22
Description
Volume 22 of the Fish Physiology Series is entirely devoted to fishes of high latitudes (Arctic and Antarctic). Three central themes
comprise the book:
The uniqueness of the physiology of fishes that live in cold polar environments, a comparative analysis of physiological
patterns exemplified by fishes that live poles apart and, how fishes differ from fishes living in more temperate and tropical habitats.
This book highlights the physiological adaptations that evolved to allow certain fish to exploit the frigid, yet productive, Arctic
and Antarctic Oceans. The reader will explore what is known, as well as what remains undiscovered, concerning the fish indigenous to
both polar regions. This will be of great interest to physiologists, ichthyologists, and comparative biologists researching low temperature
biology, fishery scientists, faculty, graduate students
Audience
Physiologists, ichthyologists, comparative biologists interested in low temperature biology, fishery scientists, and Faculty, graduates
students and researchers in these and other disciplines related to oceanography and marine biology.
Contents
Chapter 1. The Arctic and Antarctic Polar Marine Environments
Contributors: Arthur L. DeVries and John F. Steffensen
Chapter 2. Systematic
of Polar Fishes
Contributors: Peter R. Mller, Jrgen G. Neilsen, and M. Eric Anderson
Chapter 3. Metabolic Biochemistry:
Its Role in Thermal Tolerance and in the Capacities
of Physiological and Ecological Function
Contributors: H. O. Portner, M. Lucassen,
and D. Storch
Chapter 4. Antifreeze Proteins and Organismal Freezing Avoidance in Polar Fishes
Contributors: Arthur L. DeVries and
C.-H. Christina Cheng
Chapter 5. Respiratory Systems and Metabolic Rates
Contributors: John F. Steffensen
Chapter 6. The Circulatory
System and its Control
Contributors: M. Axelsson
Chapter 7. Blood Gas Transport and Haemoglobin Function in Polar Fishes: Does Lower
Temperature Explain Physiological Characters?
Contributors: RMG Wells
Chapter 8. Antarctic Fish Skeletal Muscle and Locomotion
Contributors:
William Davison
Chapter 9. The Nervous System
Contributors: John McDonald and John Montgomery
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Hardbound, 408 pages, publication date: OCT-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-350446-3
ISBN-10: 0-12-350446-5
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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