Research Catalog

Title

Comparative physiology, primitive mammals / edited by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Liana Bolis, C. Richard Taylor, co-edited by P.J. Bentley, C.E. Stevens.

Author

International Conference on Comparative Physiology (4th : 1978 : Crans, Switzerland)

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1980.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schmidt-Nielsen, Knut, 1915-2007.
• Bolis, Liana.
• Taylor, C. Richard (Charles Richard), 1939-
• Interunion Commission on Comparative Physiology.

Description

xiv, 338 pages; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Primitive mammals

Subject

• Mammals > Physiology > Congresses
• Monotremes > Physiology > Congresses
• Marsupials > Physiology > Congresses
• Eulipotyphla > Physiology > Congresses
• Physiology, Comparative > Congresses
• Mammals > Physiology
• Monotremes > Physiology
• Marsupials > Physiology
• Insectivores > Physiology
• Physiology, Comparative
• Mammals > physiology
• Physiology, Comparative
• Fysiologie
• Insecteneters
• Monotremata
• Buideldieren
• Mamiferos (biologia)

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Sponsored by the Interunion Commission on Comparative Physiology."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Machine derived contents note: 1. Biology of the earliest mammals A.W. Crompton; 2. Biological strategies of living conservative mammals John F. Eisenberg; 3. Milk and mammalian evolution Olav T. Oftedal; 4. The reptilian digestive system: general characteristics Charles L. Guard; 5. The gastrointestinal tract of mammals: major variations C.E. Stevens; 6. Digestive tract and digestive function in monotremes and nonmacropod marsupials C.J.F. Harrop and I.D. Hume; 7. Form and function of the macropod marsupial digestive tract I.D. Hume and D.W. Dellow; 8. The digestive tract: inmsectivore, prosimian, and advanced primate Edgar T. Clemens; 9. Evolution of mammalian homeothermy: a two-step process? C. Richard Taylor; 10. Have some mammals remained primitive thermoregulators? Or is all thermoregulation based on equally primitive brain functions? John Bligh; 11. What is a primitive thermoregulatory system H. Craig Heller; 12. The evolution of energy metabolism in mammals A.J. Hulbert; 13. Metabolic capabilities of monotremes and the evolution of homeothermy Terence J. Dawson and T.R. Grant; 14. Energy metabolism in hedgehogs: primitive strategies? Amiram Shkolnik; 15. Relations of metabolic rate and body temperature Piotr Poczopko; 16. The smallest insectivores: coping with scarcities of energy and water Stan Lee Lindstedt; 17. Metabolic levels and biological strategies in shrews Peter Vogel; 18. The respiratory system of the smallest mammal Eward R. Weibel, Helgard Claassen, Peter Gehr, Senada Sehovic and Peter H. Burri; 19. Energetics of locomotion: primitive and advanced mammals C. Richard Taylor; 20. Physiological responses to locomotion in marsupials R.V. Baudinette; 21. Mechanics of locomotion in primitive and advanced mammals Norman C. Heglund; 22. Elasticity in the locomotion of mammals R. McN. Alexander; 23. Elastic storage: role of tendons and muscles Giovanni A. Cavagna, G. Citterio and P. Jacini; 24. Properties and distributions of the fiber types in the locomotory muscles of mammals Robert B. Armstrong; 25. Endocrines: problems of phylogeny and evolution P.J. Bentley; 26. Pituitary-ovarian interactions in marsupials C.H. Tyndale-Biscoe and Susan M. Evans; 27. Placental function and embryonic development in marsupials Marilyn B. Renfree; 28. Adrenocorticosteroids in prototherian, metatherian and eutherian mammals Magda Weiss; 29. The renin-angiotensin system in marsupials J.R. Blair-West and Angela Gibson; 30. Physiology of the adrenal; cortex in monotremes C. Sernia; 31. Physiology of the adrenal cortext in marsupials I.R. McDonald; Index.

ISBN

• 0521228476
• 9780521228473

LCCN

79009245

OCLC

• ocm05101842
• 5101842
• SCSB-9435112

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library