Description
Book SynopsisLaurence A. Moran
After earning his PhD from Princeton University in 1974, Professor Moran spent four years at the Université dè Geneve in Switzerland. He has been a member of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto since 1978, specializing in molecular biology and molecular evolution. His research findings on heat-shock genes have been published in many scholarly journals.
H. Robert Horton
Dr. Horton, who received his PhD from the University of Missouri in 1962, is William Neal Reynolds Professor Emeritus and Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biochemistry at North Carolina State University, where he served on the faculty for over 30 years. Most of Professor Horton's research was in protein and enzyme mechanisms.
K. Gray Scrimgeour
Professor Scrimgeour received his doctorate from the University of Washington in 1961 and has been a faculty member at the University
Table of Contents
Brief Contents
- Introduction.
- Form and Movement.
- Respiration.
- Blood and its Circulation.
- Buoyancy and Thermal Regulation.
- Hydronuneral Balance.
- Feeding, Nutrition, Digestion, and Excretion.
- Growth.
- Reproduction.
- Sensory Perception.
- Behavior and Communication.
- Systematics, Genetics and Speciation.
- Evolution.
- Hagfishes and Lampreys.
- Sharks, Rays and Chimaeras.
- Relict Bony Fishes.
- Bonytongues, Eels and Herrings.
- Minnows, Characins, and Catfishes.
- Smelt, Salmon and Pike.
- Angler Fish, Barracudinas, Cods, and Dragonfishes.
- Mullets, Silversides, Flying Fish, and Killifish.
- Opahs, Squirrelfish, Dories, Pipefish, and Sculpins.
- Perciformes: Snooks to Snakeheads.
- Flounders, Puffers, and Molas.
- Zoogeography of Freshwater Fishes.
- Zoogeography of Marine Fishes.
- Introduction to Ecology.
- Temperate Streams.
- Temperate Lakes and Reservoirs.
- Tropical Freshwater Lakes and Streams.
- Estuaries.
- Coastal Habitats.
- Tropical Reefs.
- Epipelagic Zone.
- Deep Sea Habitats.
- Polar Regions.
- Conservation.
