
Physiology of the Cladocera
Description
Key Features
- Summarizes fundamental information obtained in recent years, including on steroids, antioxidants, hormones, nanoparticles, and impact of wastewater of pharmaceutical industries
- Provides the foundational information needed for scientists and practitioners from a variety of fields, including conservation and evolutionary biology, genomics, ecology, ecotoxicology, comparative physiology, limnology, zoology–carcinology, and water quality assessment
- Features coverage of both Daphniids and representatives of other families, with attention drawn to little-studied aspects of their physiology, especially of those living in the litt oral zone
- Includes guidance to the literature on cladoceran physiology in four languages
- Discusses advantages and shortcomings of Cladocera as experimental animals and indicators of water quality
Readership
Researchers in zoology, comparative physiology, evolutionary biology, ecology, limnology, experimental medicine, and ecotoxiology; applied researchers in these areas as well as environmental monitoring, water quality testing, conservation biology and toxicology; university-level students and instructors in these areas
Table of Contents
1. General
2. Methods
3. Chemical Composition
4. Nutrition
5. Respiration
6. Circulation
7. Excretion
8. Osmotic Regulation
9. Cell and Tissue Metabolism
10. Growth and Molting
11. Reproduction
12. Locomotion
13. Nervous System and Sense Organs
14. Behavior
15. Ecophysiology
16. A Cytological Perspective
Margaret J. Beaton and Carli M. Peters
17. The Genomics of Cladoceran Physiology: Daphnia as a Model
Kay Van Damme, Dörthe Becker, Elizabeth Turner, Joseph R. Shaw, John K. Colbourne, Bettina Zeis, Mathilde Cordellier, Ellen Decaestecker and Michael E. Pfrender
18. Notes on the Physiology of Embryogenesis
Alexey A. KotovConclusions: Special Traits of Cladoceran Physiology
Product details
- No. of pages: 418
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: June 1, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128051948
- eBook ISBN: 9780128052815