Animal Physiology

PART I. FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSIOLOGY 1. Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage 2. Molecules and Cells in Animal Physiology 3. Genomics, Proteomics, and Related Approaches to Physiology 4. Transport of Solutes and Water PART II. FOOD, ENERGY, AND TEMPERATURE 5. Nutrition, Feeding, and Digestion 6. Energy Metabolism 7. Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of Metabolism 8. The Energetics of Aerobic Activity 9. Thermal Relations 10. Food, Energy, and Temperature at Work: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid Places PART III. INTEGRATING SYSTEMS 11. Neurons 12. Synapses 13. Sensory Processes 14. Nervous System Organization and Biological Clocks 15. Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Physiology 16. Reproduction 17. Integrating Systems at Work: Animal Navigation PART IV. MOVEMENT AND MUSCLE 18. Control of Movement: The Motor Bases of Animal Behavior 19. Muscle 20. Movement and Muscle at Work: Plasticity in Response to Use and Disuse PART V. OXYGEN, CARBON DIOXIDE, AND INTERNAL TRANSPORT 21. Introduction to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Physiology 22. External Respiration: The Physiology of Breathing 23. Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Body Fluids 24. Circulation 25. Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport at Work: Diving by Marine Animals PART VI. WATER, SALTS, AND EXCRETION 26. Water and Salt Physiology: Introduction and Mechanisms 27. Water and Salt Physiology of Animals in Their Environments 28. Kidneys and Excretion 29. Water, Salts, and Excretion at Work: Mammals of Deserts and Dry Savannas