Animals and Temperature
Animals and Temperature
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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 organization, ranging through the molecular, cellular, organismal, population and ecosystem levels. The volume provides an important and comprehensive contribution to the study of temperature adaptation, which, given the concern about global climate change, will provide much to interest a wide range of biologists.
- Uniquely up to date - presents a synthesis of the latest findings from molecular biology set in a modern evolutionary context
- Authoritative - contributions from the leading workers in the field and published in the well-respected SEB Series
- Comprehensive - extensively edited to ensure a cohesive and comprehensive treatment of the topic
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"This is one of those relatively infrequent occasions where an ambitious, important organizing conception for a symposium has worked out well. The editors have elicited from their contributors an interesting and significant group of papers that cover the topic in a reasonably well-integrated, logically organized, generally well-written manner." The Quarterly Review of Biology
Product details
- Published: February 2008
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780521050616
- Length: 436 pages
- Dimensions: 228 × 153 × 24 mm
- Weight: 0.657kg
- Contains: 93 b/w illus. 9 tables
- Availability: Available
Table of Contents
- 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.
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