Hill, Richard W.,

Animal physiology / Richard W. Hill, Michigan State University, Daniel Cavanaugh, Loyola University Chicago, Margaret Anderson, Smith College. - Fifth edition. - xxviii, 855 pages, 105 variously numbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.

Revised edition of: Animal physiology / Richard W. Hill, Michigan State University, Gordon A. Wyse, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Margaret Anderson, Smith College. Fourth edition. [2016].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Animals and environments : function on the ecological stage
Molecules and cells in animal physiology
Genomics, proteomics, and related approaches to physiology
Physiological development and epigenetics
Transport of solutes and water
Nutrition, feeding, and digestion
Energy metabolism
Aerobic and anaerobic forms of metabolism
The energetics of aerobic activity
Thermal relations
Food, energy, and temperature at work : the lives of mammals in frigid places
Neurons
Synapses
Sensory processes
Nervous system organization and biological clocks
Endocrine and neuroendocrine physiology
Reproduction
Integrating systems at work : animal navigation
Control of movement : the motor bases of animal behavior
Muscle
Movement and muscle at work : plasticity in response to use and disuse
Introduction to oxygen and carbon dioxide physiology
External respiration : the physiology of breathing
Transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide in body fluids (with an introduction to acid-base physiology)
Circulation
Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and internal transport at work : diving by marine mammals
Water and salt physiology : introduction and mechanisms
Water and salt physiology of animals in their environments
Kidneys and excretion (with notes on nitrogen excretion)
Water, salts, and excretion at work : mammals of deserts and dry savannas


"Comprehensive, contemporary, and engaging, Animal Physiology provides evolutionary and ecological context to help students make connections across all levels of physiological scale"--

College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Science in Biology


Text in English

9780197552438

2021029452


Physiology, Comparative.
Animal physiology.

QP33 / .H54 2022

571.1 H55 / 2022