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Fish respiration and environment [electronic resource] / editors, Marisa N. Fernandes ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Fernandes, Marisa NMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Enfield, N.H. : Science Publishers, c2007. Description: xvi, 392 p. : ill. (some col.)ISBN: 9781439842546 (ebook : PDF)Subject(s): Fishes -- Respiration | Gills | Fishes -- EcologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No title; No titleOnline resources: Click here to access online Also available in print edition.
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 L�ucia 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 16. Respiration in infectious and non-infectious gill diseases / Mark D. Powell -- 17. Control of the heart in fish / Edwin W. Taylor ... [et al.].
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 L�ucia 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 16. Respiration in infectious and non-infectious gill diseases / Mark D. Powell -- 17. Control of the heart in fish / Edwin W. Taylor ... [et al.].

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