Fish Life in Special Environments / Edition 1

by Philippe Sebert, D.W. Onyango, B.G. Kapoor

Overview

Living organisms are endowed with ingenious adaptive mechanisms to cope with the adversities of special environments. Due to the vast diversity of their habitats, fish make an excellent model to depict the interplay of morphological, physiological and biochemical aspects, and are often used to study adaptive processes to a new environment. The book covers fish in diverse environmental conditions such as alkaline environments, caves, Antarctic, ice cold lakes, tropical coral reefs, and deep waters. The chapters also discuss mitochondrial functions in the cold, circadian rhythms, endocrinology of migratory fish life cycle and fish muscle function. The topics have been selected in order to present a window to an array of adaptations of aquatic inhabitants which enable them to subsist and survive in the uncommon, and often hostile, external environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578083879
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Philippe Sebert, D.W. Onyango, B.G. Kapoor

Table of Contents

Fish Osmoregulation in Special Environments; Alcolapia grahami: A Fish Inhabiting a Highly Alkaline Environment of Lake Magadi, Kenya; Cave Fishes: The Consequences of the Life in Darkness; Circadian Rhythms in Hypogean Fish: With Special Reference to the Cave Loach, Nemacheilus evezardi; Hemoglobinless Antarctic Icefish: Adaptations to Living at Sub-zero Temperatures; Fish Life in Special Environments: Mitochondrial Function in the Cold; Hypoxic Survival in Two Extremes: Ice Cold Lakes in Northern Europe and Tropical Coral Reefs; Endocrinology of Migratory Fish Life Cycle in Special Environments: The Role of Metamorphoses; Fish Muscle Function and Pressure; Alepocephaloids, a Key Teleostean Group: Their Myology, Functional Anatomy, Phylogeny and Specialization to Deep-water Environments; Diversity and Adaptation in Deep Channel Neotropical Electric Fishes