Biological Systems in Vertebrates ( Series )
Functional Morphology of the Vertebrate Respiratory Systems
Series Editors: Hiran M. Dutta and Douglas W. Kline: Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Ohio, USA
J.N. Maina: Department of Anatomical Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN 978-1-57808-252-0; 2002; 192 pages, pb; US $ 77.30      Buy Now

Series: Biological Systems in Vertebrates, Volume 1
Series editors: Hiran M. Dutta and Douglas W. Kline: Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Ohio, USA

Gives an account of the morphologies of vertebrate respiratory organs and attempts to explicate the basis of the common and different structural and functional designs and stratagems that have evolved for acquisition of molecular oxygen. The book has been written with a broad readership in mind: students of biology as well as experts in the disciplines of zoology, physiology, morphology, biological microscopy, biomedical engineering, and ecology and those that work or may contemplate working on materials and aspects concerning respiration in whole organisms will find it useful. Scientists in earth sciences with particular interest on the outcomes of past interactions between environmental factors (the physical domain) and evolution and adaptation (the biological domain), mechanisms that have set the composition, patterning, and anatomies of extant animal life, will find the book of interest.