Phylogeny, Anatomy and Physiology of Ancient Fishes

Herausgeber: Zaccone, Giacomo; Hedrick, Michael S.; Dabrowski, Konrad

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book on ancient fishes unites the work of many specialists coming from different areas of biology. Hagfishes, lungfishes, Chondrosteans, and Holosteans constitute the main subject of study. Fossil records and extant species are compared to establish the conservation or the degeneration of specific characters. However, phylogenetic relationships have mostly been revisited in the light of new molecular and developmental data. The morphology of several organs is also revisited. This volume includes a phylogenetic account of the cardiac outflow tract, and the particulars of the heart and circulation in lungfishes. The control of breathing and the lung-swim bladder issue is discussed. The developmental anatomy of the sturgeon gut and accounts of the gut structure in lungfishes and garfishes are also included. Biochemical and physiological aspects of the behavior of lungfishes and gars are presented. Reports on the fish olfactory system, and on the amazing slime glands of hagfishes, are also covered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9781498707558
• ISBN-10: 1498707556
• Artikelnr.: 42697100

Autorenporträt

Giacomo Zaccone, K. Dabrowski, Michael S. Hedrick, J.M.O. Fernandes, José M. Icardo

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Phylogenetic introduction. The occurrence and function of the
NOS/NO system in the heart of the eel and the African lungfish.
Evolutionary aspects on the comparative biology of lungfishes: emphasis on
South American lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa. Developmental metabolism of
the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri. Aestivation in African
lungfishes: Physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. Anatomy of the
heart and circulation in lungfishes. The cardiac outflow tract of primitive
fishes.Control of breathing in primitive fishes. The lung-swimbladder issue
and the complex hierarchical nature of homology: A simple case of homology
- Or not? The gut and associated organs in the African lungfish
Protopterus annectens. Morphology, histology and functional structure of
the alimentary canal of sturgeon. The structural organization in the
olfactory system of the teleosts and garfishes. Hagfish slime and slime
glands.