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The Crustacea is one of the dominant invertebrate groups, displaying staggering diversity in form and function, and spanning the full spectrum of Earth's environments. Crustaceans are increasingly used as model organisms in all fields of biology, as few other taxa exhibit such a variety of body...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press USA,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Natural history of the crustacea ;
volume 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Series; Physiology; Copyright; Contents; Color Plates; 1 Endocrinology of Molting; 2 Endocrinology of Metabolism and Water Balance: Crustacean Hyperglycemic Hormone; 3 Adaptive Color Change and the Molecular Endocrinology of Pigment Translocation in Crustacean Chromatophores; 4 Muscle Structure, Fiber Types, and Physiology; 5 Skeletal Muscle Differentiation, Growth, and Plasticity; 6 Regeneration in Crustaceans; 7 Circulatory Physiology; 8 Osmoregulation and Excretion; 9 Nutrition and Digestion; 10 Responses to Environmental Stresses: Oxygen, Temperature, and pH.
- 11 Oxygen Transport Proteins in Crustacea: Hemocyanin and Hemoglobin12 Energetics and Metabolic Regulation; 13 Crustacean Genomics and Functional Genomic Responses to Environmental Stress and Infection; 14 Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals; 15 Some Physiological Responses of Crustaceans to Toxicants; Index.