Research Catalog

Title

Respiration and metabolism of embryonic vertebrates : satellite symposium of the 29th International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Sydney, Australia, 1983 / organized and edited by Roger S. Seymour.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : W. Junk ; Hingham, MA : Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Boston, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Seymour, Roger S.
• International Congress of Physiological Sciences (29th : 1983 : Sydney, N.S.W.)

Description

xi, 445 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Perspectives in vertebrate science ; v. 3

Uniform Title

Perspectives in vertebrate science ; v. 3.

Subject

• Vertebrates > Embryology > Congresses
• Vertebrates > Respiration > Congresses
• Respiration > Congresses
• Metabolism > Congresses
• Metabolism
• Oxygen consumption (Physiology)
• Physiology, Comparative
• Respiration
• Metabolism
• Oxygen Consumption
• Physiology, Comparative
• Respiration
• Vertebrates > embryology
• Vertebrates > physiology
• metabolism (biological concept)
• Vertebrates > Embryology
• Vertebrates > Respiration

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Facilitation of maternal-fetal oxygen transfer in fishes : anatomical and molecular specializations / R.L. Ingermann and R.C. Terwilliger -- Blood adaptations for maternal-fetal oxygen transfer in the viviparous teleost, Zoarces viviparus L. / M. Hartvig and R.E. Weber -- Transition of respiratory processes during amphibian metamorphosis : from egg to adult / W.W. Burggren -- Functional morphology of gills in larval amphibians / R. McIndoe and D.G. Smith -- Consequences of aerial respiration for amphibian larvae / M.E. Feder -- Physiological features of embryonic development in terrestrially-breeding plethodontid salamanders / D.F. Bradford -- Coupling of physiology of embryonic turtles to the hydric environment / G.C. Packard and M.J. Packard -- Hydrostatic pressure, shell compliance and permeability to water vapor in flexible-shelled eggs of the colubrid snake Elaphe obsoleta / H.B. Lillywhite and R.A. Ackerman -- Influence of incubation substrate water content on oxygen uptake in embryos of the Burmese python (Python molurus) / C.P. Black, G.F. Birchard, G.W. Schuett and V.D. Black -- Physiological and ecological questions on the evolution of reptilian viviparity / R. Shine -- Comparative aspects of calcium metabolism in embryonic reptiles and birds / M.J. Packard and G.C. Packard -- Respiratory gas transport system : similarities between avian embryos and lungless salamanders / J. Piiper and P. Scheid -- Adult and embryonic metabolism in birds and the role of shell conductance / C.V. Paganelli and H. Rahn -- The effects of oxygen on growth and development of the chick embryo / J. Metcalfe, M.K. Stock and R.L. Ingermann -- Regulation of oxygen affinity of embryonic blood during hypoxic incubation / R. Baumann -- Blood oxygen affinity in relation to yolk-sac and chorioallantoic gas exchange in the developing chick embryo / R.B. Reeves -- Permeability of eggshells of native chickens in the Peruvian Andes / F. Leon-Velarde, J. Whittembury, C. Carey and C. Monge -- Eggshell conductances of avian eggs at different altitudes / C. Carey, D.L. Larson, D.F. Hoyt and T.L. Bucher -- Factors controlling the rate of incubation water loss in bird eggs / H. Rahn -- A preliminary study of local oxygen tensions inside bird eggs and gas exchange during early stages of embryonic development / J.P. Lomholt -- Oxygen and glucose uptakes in the early chick embryo / P. Kucera, E. Raddatz and A. Baroffio -- Influence of L-thyroxine and thiourea on metabolism and lung respiration in embryonic chicks / J. Wittmann, W. Kugler and H. Kolb -- Patterns of lung aeration in the perinatal period of domestic fowl and brush turkey / R.S. Seymour -- Carbon dioxide transport and acid-base balance in chickens before and after hatching / H. Tazawa -- The energetics of development in a very large altricial bird, the brown pelican / G.A. Bartholomew and D.L. Goldstein -- Analysis of variation in gas exchange, growth patterns, and energy utilization in a parrot and other avian embryos / T.L. Bucher and G.A. Bartholomew -- The development of the respiratory system in placental mammals / J.E. Maloney -- Structural adaptations of the eggs and fetal membranes of monotremes and marsupials for respiratory and metabolic exchange / R.L. Hughes -- Gas transfer by the neonate in the Pouch of the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii / D. Randall, B. Gannon, S. Runciman and R.V. Baudinette.

ISBN

• 9061930537
• 9789061930532
• 9061938902
• 9789061938903

LCCN

84009751

OCLC

• ocm10753169
• 10753169
• SCSB-601610

Owning Institutions

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