Conceptual Breakthroughs in Comparative Physiology

Conceptual Breakthroughs in Comparative Physiology focuses on the major milestones and research achievements in comparative animal physiology throughout history. This book also looks towards the future of the field and illustrates how advances in technology continue to drive the goal to understanding how animals work, and how they have adapted to their environments.Written by a leading expert in comparative physiology, this book follows the chronological order of discoveries and developments in the field. It begins by covering the origins of comparative physiology in the 16th century, moving on to describe its first true implementation in the 19th century with new topics such as developmental, diving, and renal physiology. The book then goes on to examine new developments in ecological physiology and the birth of evolutionary physiology, moving in to the 21st century to cover more modern topics such as biosensors, genomic influence, and climate change.Conceptual Breakthroughs in Comparative Physiology is an essential resource for undergraduates, graduate students and researchers interested in physiology and providing a synopsis of the field's foundational history and significant advances Provides a single-source historical overview of the fieldExamines more than 70 significant achievements in the history of comparative animal physiologyWritten in the comprehensive and easy-to-read format of the Conceptual Breakthroughs series INDICE: 1. Early history 1500-1920 2. The Golden Age 1940-1987 3. The effects of body size 4. Energy intake and utilization 5. Temperature regulation 6. Developmental Physiology 7. Form and function of the vertebrate cardiovascular system 8. Respiratory models 9. Diving physiology 10. Biochemistry and metabolism 11. Locomotion and biomechanics 12. Hypoxia and anoxia tolerance 13. Desert physiology 14. Renal physiology 15. Specific dynamic action 16. Acid-base regulation alpha-stat vs. pH-stat 17. Evolution of endothermy 18. Hemoglobin variants and the environment 19. Symmorphosis -the concept of optimal design 20. Contributions of the Field Stations 21. Friday Harbor 22. Mt Desert Island 23. Woods Hole 24. Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Alpha Helix 25. McMurdo Station 26. The End of Adaptationism 27. Post -Spandrels 28. New Directions in Ecological Physiology 29. Phylogenetic analysis 30. The birth of Evolutionary physiology 31. The modern era-21st Century 32. Climate change and organismal physiology 33. The Molecular Revolution-genomes for all 34. Biosensors 35. The Future-Integration, evolution, and alternative models

• ISBN: 978-0-12-817366-4
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 276
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés