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

RICHARD W. HILL is Professor in the Department of Zoology at Michigan State University, USA and a frequent Guest Investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research interests include: temperature regulation and energetics in birds and mammals, especially neonates; and marine sulphur physiology, especially in the contexts of biogeochemistry and animal-algal symbioses. GORDON A. WYSE is Professor of Biology and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. His research uses caterpillars and Limulus as model organisms to explore the neural circuits and neurotransmitters underlying feeding behaviour and other behaviour patterns. MARGARET ANDERSON is Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of the Programme in Neuroscience at Smith College, USA. Her research interests include the functional properties of excitable cells.