UID:
edoccha_9959345658902883
Format:
1 online resource (205 p.)
ISBN:
1-63463-521-3
Series Statement:
Animal Science, Issues and Research
Content:
The evolution to multicellular organisms determined the appearance of more sophisticated and specialized systems for the different physiologies like integumentary, respiration, digestion, excretion, circulatory, reproduction, skeletal and the nervous system. In the line of chordate evolution, advent of tetrapods have triggered the events leading to only partial dependence on water for physiological activities. The inconstant environment in which animals lives largely determine and guides the way animal physiology evolves. This directs the anatomical and morphological changes in the organism th
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Description based upon print version of record.
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""CHORDATES: COMPARATIVE ACCOUNT OF PHYSIOLOGY""; ""CHORDATES: COMPARATIVE ACCOUNT OF PHYSIOLOGY""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Integumentary System""; ""Abstract""; ""1.1. Integument and Its Function""; ""1.2. Structure of Skin""; ""Protochordate Skin""; ""Skin of Cyclostomata""; ""Fish Skin""; ""1.3. Fish Scales""; ""Evolutionary Modifications in Scales of Fishes""; ""1.4. Amphibian Skin""; ""1.5. Reptilian Skin""; ""1.6. Bird Skin""; ""Development of Feather""; ""1.7. Mammalian Skin""; ""Development of Hair""
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""Development of Mammary Glands""""Horns in Mammals""; ""Other Modifications of Mammalian Skin [1, 3]""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2: Locomotion: Locomotory Organs and Mechanism""; ""Abstract""; ""2.1. Locomotory Organs of Fish � Fins""; ""Types of Caudal Fins""; ""Heterocercal""; ""Protocercal""; ""Homocercal""; ""Isocercal""; ""Diphycercal""; ""Hypocercal""; ""2.2. Types of Paired Fins""; ""Biserial Fins""; ""Finfold Fins""; ""Ray Fins""; ""Lobe Fins""; ""2.3. Swimming""; ""A. Mechanism""; ""B. Body/Caudal Fin Propulsion""; ""C. Anguilliform Locomotion""
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""D. Sub-Carangiform Locomotion""""E. Carangiform Locomotion""; ""F. Thunniform Locomotion""; ""G. Ostraciiform Locomotion""; ""H. Median/Paired Fin Propulsion""; ""2.4. Dynamic Lift""; ""2.5. Hydrodynamic Principles""; ""A. Median-Paired Fin""; ""a. Undulatory""; ""b. Oscillatory""; ""B. Body-Caudal Fin""; ""a. Undulatory""; ""b. Oscillatory""; ""2.6. Adaptation""; ""2.7. Flying""; ""2.8. Tradeoffs""; ""2.9. Biplane Body Plan""; ""2.10. Monoplane Body Plan""; ""2.11. Walking""; ""Burrowing""; ""2.12. Tetrapod Limbs and their Adaptations""; ""2.13. A Typical Tetrapod Limb""
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""2.14. Modifications in Tetrapod Limb""""A. Arboreal Adaptation""; ""B. Scansorial Adaptation""; ""C. Cursorial Adaptation""; ""D. Volant Adaptation""; ""E. Aquatic Adaptation""; ""F. Fossorial Adaptation""; ""G. Saltatorial Adaptation""; ""H. Graviportal Adaptation""; ""2.15. The Appendicular Skeleton and Locomotion [21]""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3: Respiratory System""; ""Abstract""; ""3.1. Respiration""; ""3.2. Adaptations for External respiration""; ""3.3. Respiratory Organs""; ""A. Cutaneous Respiration""; ""B. Gills""; ""3.4. Swim Bladder and Origin of Lungs""; ""3.5. Larynx""
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""3.6. Trachea and Syrinx""""3.7. Lungs""; ""3.8. Gills in Protochordates""; ""3.9. Respiratory Organs of Cyclostomes""; ""3.10. Respiratory Organs in Elasmobranchs""; ""3.11. Gills of Bony Fishes""; ""3.12. External Gills""; ""3.13. Evolution of Pharyngeal gill slits""; ""3.14. Pharyngeal Arches in Vertebrates""; ""3.15. Air Bladder""; ""3.16. Accessary Respiratory Organs in Fishes""; ""A. Dendritic Organs""; ""B. Labyrinthine Organs""; ""C. Pneumatic Sac""; ""D. Air Chamber""; ""E. Buccopharyngeal Epithelium""; ""F. Integument""; ""G. Gut Epithelium""; ""H. Lungs""; ""3.17. Amphibia""
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""3.18. Reptiles""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-63463-457-8
Language:
English
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