PRIMITIVE FISHES, 26

Author: David McKenzie , Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, France Anthony Farrell , Professor, Chair in Sustainable Aquaculture, UBC Centre for Aquaculture and Environmental Research(CAER), and Faculty of Land and Food Systems, & Department of Zoology,University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Colin Brauner , Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

ISBN13: 9780123736710

Publisher: Elsevier

Price: €82.95
Pages: 576
Edition: Hardbound
Publish date: Juli 2007

Outline:
Primitive fishes are a relatively untapped resource in the scientific search for insights into the evolution of physiological systems in fishes and higher vertebrates. Volume 26 in the Fish Physiology series presents what is known about the physiology of these fish in comparison with the two fish groups that dominate today, the modern elasmobranchs and the teleosts. Chapters include reviews on what is known about cardiovascular, nervous and ventilatory systems, gas exchange, ion and nitrogenous waste regulation, muscles and locomotion, endocrine systems, and reproduction. Editors provide a thorough understanding of how these systems have evolved through piscine and vertebrate evolutionary history. Primitive Fishes includes ground-breaking information in the field, including highlighs of the most unusual characteristics amongst the various species, which might have allowed these fishes to persist virtually unchanged through evolutionary time. This volume is essential for all comparative physiologists, fish biologists, and paleontologists.