The physiology of polar fishes
By: edited by Anthony P. Farrell, John F. Steffensen.
Contributors: Farrell, Anthony Peter, 1952-; Steffensen, John F.
Series: Fish physiology -- v. 22.
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Fishes -- Adaptation -- Polar regions.; Cold adaptation.; Fishes -- Polar regions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The Arctic and Antarctic polar marine environments / Arthur L. DeVries and John F. Steffensen; value: Systematics of polar fishes / Peter Rask Møller, Jorgen G. Nielsen, and M. Eric Anderson; value: Metabolic biochemistry: its role in thermal tolerance and in the capacities of physiological and ecological function / H.O. Pörtner, M. Lucassen, and D. Storch; value: Antifreeze proteins and organismal freezing avoidance in polar fishes / Arthur L. DeVires and C.-H. Christina Cheng; value: Respiratory systems and metabolic rates / John F. Steffensen; value: The circulatory system and its control / Michael Axelsson; value: Blood-gas transport and hemoglobin function in polar fishes: does low temperature explain physiological characters? / R.M.G. Wells; value: Antarctic fish skeletal muscle and locomotion / William Davison; value: The nervous system / John MacDonald and John Montgomery.