Comparative Animal Biochemistry / Edition 1

by Klaus Urich, C. Urich, P.J. King

Overview

There exists an extreme variability in the biochemical properties of animal organisms. Each species, each individual, in fact each cell type of a multicellular animal has its own molecular characters. This advanced text- and reference book deals with the molecular structures of body substances and the chemical processes of metabolism for the first time throughout the whole animal kingdom from the protozoans to the higher vertebrates. The biochemical variation is explained as adaptation to particular environmental conditions or as the result of phylogenetic diversification. The fascinating insights into the fundamental mechanisms and the time course of evolution that have been gained by the analysis of molecular data are extensively described. More than 4600 actual references give the reader access to the original literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642081811
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/03/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1994
Pages:	784
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 10.63(h) x 0.06(d)

Table of Contents

1 The Subject Matter and Methods of Comparative Biochemistry.- 2 Nucleic Acids and Nuclear Proteins.- 3 The Structural Variety and Metabolism of Proteins.- 4 Molecular Evolution.- 5 Plasma Proteins, Yolk Proteins and Metal-Binding Proteins.- 6 Immunoproteins.- 7 Respiratory Pigments.- 8 Peptide Hormones.- 9 Toxic Proteins and Peptides.- 10 Proteins of Muscle and the Cytoskeleton.- 11 Extracellular Structural and Secretory Proteins.- 12 Small Nitrogenous Compounds.- 13 The Structure and Metabolism of Carbohydrates.- 14 Glycolysis.- 15 Lipids.- 16 Sterols and Steroids.- 17 Ester Hydrolases, ATPases and Carboanhydrases.- 18 Oxidative Metabolism.- 19 Secondary Metabolites.- Genera Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...there is much fascinating information packed into the pages of this book to inform and stimulate the biochemical browser." FEBS Letters

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