The Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology is a comprehensive source of information on fish physiology with topic coverage from fish genomics through behavior. This encyclopedia boasts extensive online, hyperlinked cross-referencing between entries and considerable use of color. Entries are written in a succinct and easily understood fashion making this reference work an essential resource for both seasoned physiologists and new investigators to the field.
Key Features:
This definitive reference work contains over 250 entries written by the world's foremost authorities on fish physiology.
Integrates extensive entries in systems physiology with anatomy, the environment, and phylogentics.
Describes the genomic bases of fish physiology and biology and the use of fish as model organisms in human physiological research.
A glossary of terms
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Editors.
Editors’ Biographies.
Section Editors.
Contributors.
How to Use the Encyclopedia.
Contents.
Preface.
1: Sensing the Environment: Brain and Nervous System.
2: Functional Morphology of the Nervous System: An Introduction.
3: Cranial and Spinal Nerves of Fishes: Evolution of the Craniate Pattern.
4: Functional Morphology of the Brains of Agnathans.
5: Functional Morphology of the Brains of Cartilaginous Fishes.
6: Functional Morphology of the Brains of Ray-Finned Fishes.
7: Functional Morphology of the Brains of Sarcopterygian Fishes: Lungfishes and Latimeria.
8: Motor Control Systems of Fish.
9: Physiology of the Mauthner Cell: Discovery and Properties.
10: Physiology of the Mauthner Cell: Function.
11: Autonomic Nervous System of Fishes.
12: Opioids and Opioid Receptors in Fishes.
13: Sensing The Environment: Vision.
14: Vision in Fishes: An Introduction.
15: Physiological Optics in Fishes.
16: Photoreceptors and Visual Pigments.
17: Adaptations of Photoreceptors and Visual Pigments.
18: Inner Retina and Ganglion Cells.
19: Optic Tectum.
20: Behavioral Assessment of the Visual Capabilities of Fish.
21: Color Vision and Color Communication in Reef Fish.
22: Extraretinal Photoreception.
23: Visual Adaptations to the Deep Sea.
24: Sensing the Environment: Smell, Taste, and Chemical Sensing.
25: Chemoreception (Smell and Taste): An Introduction.
26: Morphology of the Gustatory (Taste) System in Fishes.
27: Morphology of the Olfactory (Smell) System in Fishes.
28: Neurophysiology of Olfaction.
29: Neurophysiology of Gustation.
30: Chemosensory Behavior.
31: Sensing the Environment: Hearing and Lateral Line.
32: Fish Bioacoustics: An Introduction.
33: Vestibular System Anatomy and Physiology.
34: Auditory System Morphology.
35: The Ear and Hearing in Sharks, Skates, and Rays.
