A. Johnston / F. Bennett (eds.)

Animals and Temperature

Phenotypic and Evolutionary Adaptation
Herausgeber: Bennett, Albert F.; Johnston, Ian A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Environmental temperature varies in time and space on timescales ranging from a few hours to long-term climate change. Organisms are therefore continually challenged to regulate and maintain functional capacities as their thermal environment changes. This volume brings together many of the leading workers in thermal biology, with backgrounds spanning the disciplines of molecular biology, cell biology, physiology, zoology, ecology and evolutionary biology, to discuss the responses of a wide range of species to temperature change at all scales of organisation, ranging through the molecular, cellular, organismal, population and ecosystem levels. The volume provides an important and comprehensive novel contribution to the study of temperature adaptation, which, given the current concern about global climate change, will provide much to interest a wide range of biologists.

Table of contents:
Preface; 1. Adaptation of biological membranes to temperature: biophysical perspectives and molecular mechanisms A. Y. Gracey, J. Longue, P. E. Tiku, and A. R. Cossins; 2. Temperature adaptation: molecular aspects G. di Prisco, and B. Giardina; 3. Stenotherms and eurytherms: mechanisms establishing thermal optima and tolerance ranges G. N. Somero, and J. J. Lin; 4. Ecological and evolutionary physiology of stress proteins and the stress response: the Drosophila melanogaster model M. E. Feder; 5. Temperature adaptation and genetic polymorphism in aquatic animals A. J. S. Hawkins; 6. Phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptations of mitochondria to temperature H. E. Guderley, and J. St. Pierre; 7. Temperature and ontogeny in ectotherms: muscle phenotype in fish I. A. Johnston, V. L. A. Vieira, and J. Hill; 8. Ectotherm life history responses to developmental temperature D. Atkinson; 9. Testing evolutionary hypotheses of acclimation R. B. Huey, and D. Berrigan; 10. Experimental investigations of evolutionary adaptation to temperature J. A. Mongold, A. F. Bennett, and R. E. Lenski; 11. Thermal evolution of ectotherm bodysize: why get big in the cold? L. Partridge, and V. French; 12. Physiological correlates of daily torpor in hummingbirds J. E. P. W. Bicudo; 13. The development of thermoregulation in birds: physiology, interspecific variation and adaptation to climate Z. A. Eppley; 14. The evolution of endothermy in mammals, birds and their ancestors J. Ruben; 15. The influence of climate change on the distribution and evolution of organisms A. Clarke; Index.

The first book for almost a decade to take a comprehensive look at how organisms adapt to temperature change. The volume considers changes over both short and long-term temporal scales, and at all levels of organisation, spanning the range from molecules to ecosystems.

A very topical volume given the current concern about global climate change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 856g
• ISBN-13: 9780521496582
• ISBN-10: 0521496586
• Artikelnr.: 21974665

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Adaptation of biological membranes to
temperature: biophysical perspectives and molecular mechanisms A. Y.
Gracey, J. Logue, P. E. Tiku and A. R. Cossins; 2. Temperature adaptation:
molecular aspects G. Di Prisco and B. Giardina; 3. Stenotherms and
eurytherms: mechanisms establishing thermal optima and tolerance ranges G.
N. Somero, E. Dahlhoff and J. J. Lin; 4. Ecological and evolutionary
physiology of stress proteins and the stress response: the Drosophila
melanogaster model M. E. Feder; 5. Temperature adaptation and genetic
polymorphism in aquatic animals A. J. S. Hawkins; 6. Phenotypic plasticity
and evolutionary adaptations of mitochondria to temperature H. E. Guderley
and J. St Pierre; 7. Temperature and ontogeny in ectotherms: muscle
phenotype in fish I. A. Johnston, V. L. A. Vieira and J. Hill; 8. Ectotherm
life-history responses to developmental temperature D. Atkinson; 9. Testing
evolutionary hypotheses of acclimation R. B. Huey and D. Berrigan; 10.
Experimental investigations of evolutionary adaptation to temperature J. A.
Mongold, A. F. Bennett and R. E. Lenski; 11. Thermal evolution of ectotherm
body size: why get big in the cold? L. Partridge and V. French; 12.
Physiological correlates of daily torpor in hummingbirds J. E. P. W.
Bicudo; 13. Development of thermoregulation in birds: physiology,
interspecific variation and adaptation to climate Z. A. Eppley; 14.
Evolution of endothermy in mammals, birds and their ancestors J. Ruben; 15.
The influence of climate change on the distribution and evolution of
organisms A. Clarke; Index.