Fish Respiration and Environment
Editors:
Marisa N. Fernandes and Francisco T. Rantin: Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil
Mogens Lesner Glass: Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Prêto, Brazil
B.G. Kapoor: Formerly Professor of Zoology, Jodhpur University, India
ISBN 978-1-57808-357-2/ August 2007/ 408 pages, hc/ US $ 122.60     Buy Now

Gills of healthy fishes are their lifeline to meet the challenges arising from their changing environment: oxygen gradient, alkalinity, temperature fluctuations and the added pollutants. The diverse and ever changing aquatic environment has a major impact on the organization of various organ-systems of fishes. This book contains seventeen chapters covering bony fishes which are focal to the current study. The chapters primarily cover fish respiration but also include osmoregulation, these being the two main functions of gills. Concurrently, cardiorespiratory synchronization has been well addressed.

It is hoped that this book with its broad coverage and well-supported with illustrations will not only infuse interest in readers but merit a permanent place on the shelves of ichthyological literature.


Contents:-
. Adaptation of Gas Exchange Systems in Fish Living in Different Environments: S.M. Kisia and D.W. Onyango
. Morpho-physiological Divergence Across Aquatic Oxygen Gradients in Fishes: Lauren J. Chapman
. Swimbladder-Lung Homology in Basal Osteichthyes Revisited: Steven F. Perry
. The Effects of Temperature on Respiratory and Cardiac Function of Teleost Fish: Franciso Tadeu Rantin et al.
. Oxygen Consumption during Embryonic Development of the Mudskipper (Periophthalmus modestus): Implication for the Aerial Development in Burrows: Aya Etou et al.
. Gill Morphological Adjustments to Environment and the Gas Exchange Function: Marisa Narciso Fernandes et al.
. Behavior and Adaptation of Air-breathing Fishes: Marisa Fernandes de Castilho et al.
. The Osmo-respiratory Compromise in Fish: The Effects of Physiological State and the Environment: Brian A. Sardella and Colin J. Brauner
. Dissolved Oxygen and Gill Morphometry: Marco Saroglia et al.
. Environmental Influences on the Respiratory Physiology and Gut Chemistry of a Facultatively Airbreathing, Tropical Herbivorous Fish Hypostomus regani (Ihering, 1905): Jay A. Nelson et al.
. Osmoregulatory and Respiratory Adaptations of Lake Magadi Fish (Alcolapia grahami): Daniel W. Onyango and Seth M. Kisia
. Respiratory Function of the Carp (Cyprinus carpio L.): Portrait of a Hypoxia-tolerant Species: Mogens L. Glass and Roseli Soncini
. Blood Gases of the South American Lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa: A Comparsion to Other Air-breathing Fish and to Amphibians: Jalile Amin-Naves et al.
. Transition from Water to Land in an Extant Group of Fishes: Air Breathing and the Acquisition Sequence of Adaptations for Amphibious Life in Oxudercine Gobies: Jeffrey B. Graham et al.
. Respiratory Function in the South American Lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa: M.L. Glass et al.
. Respiration in Infectious and Non-Infectious Gill Diseases: Mark D. Powell
. Control of the Heart in Fish: Edwin W. Taylor et al.