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Description

1. xi, 299 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

1. Air Breathing Fishes: Evolution, Diversity, and Adaptation is the first book on air-breathing evolution to focus exclusively on fish. Jeffrey Graham provides a concise overview of air-breathing biology, presenting a synoptic treatment of all the known air-breathing fish species, detailing the life history, ecology, and physiology of nearly 300 species. Each chapter provides an historical background, and documents air-breathing behavior, morphological and physiological adaptations, current status, and anticipates future research. Amply referenced, with more than 1,000 citations and many detailed figures and comprehensive tables, Air breathing Fishes: Evolution, diversity, and Adaptation is a groundbreaking work, one that will influenced this field well into the next century.

Subject

1. Air-breathing fishes
2. Air-breathing fishes > Respiration
3. Fishes
4. Fishes
5. Biologie marine
6. Poissons
7. Système respiratoire
8. Sélection naturelle
9. Air-breathing fishes
10. Air-breathing fishes > Respiration
11. Vissen (dierkunde)
12. Ademhaling
13. Peixes (biologia)
14. Fishes > Ecology
15. Poissons > Respiration

Contents

1. The biology of air-breathing fishes : Environmental factors affecting air-breathing fishes ; What is an air-breathing fish? ; The types of air-breathing fishes -- Diversity and natural history : The families of air-breathing fishes -- Respiratory organs : Historical ; Anatomy and morphometrics ; Types of air-breathing organs ; Lungs and respiratory gas bladders ; ABOs of the higher teleosts -- Circulatory adaptations : Defining the problems ; Comparative circulatory specialization ; Pulmonary circulation -- Aerial and aquatic gas exchange : Historical ; The air-breathing cycle ; Respiration ; The metabolic scope of air-breathing fishes ; Respiratory organ physiology ; Carbonic anhydrase and air breathing -- Cardiorespiratory control : Physical and chemical aspects ; Comparative aspects of ventilatory control: fishes and mammals ; Studies of bimodal control ; Studies of central and peripheral control ; Studies of ABO receptors ; Cardiorespiratory reflexes -- Blood respiratory properties : Hemoglobin function in air-breathing fishes ; Other blood functions -- Metabolic adaptations : Oxygen access and intermediary metabolism ; Nitrogen metabolism -- Synthesis : The natural history of fish air breathing ; Factors leading to the evolution of air breathing ; Air-breathing specializations ; Air breathing and aquaculture ; Fish air breathing and the evolution of tetrapods.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-288) and index.