Fish life in special environments

Fish life in special environments

by Kapoor, B. G. Onyango, Daniel W. Sébert, Philippe

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"This book presents a window to an array of adaptations of aquatic inhabitants which enable them to subsist and survive in the uncommon, often hostile external environment. This book will interest fish biologists as well as ecophysiologists."--book jacket.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Fish life in special environments / editors, Philippe Sébert, D.W. Onyango, B.G. Kapoor.

Summary

"This book presents a window to an array of adaptations of aquatic inhabitants which enable them to subsist and survive in the uncommon, often hostile external environment. This book will interest fish biologists as well as ecophysiologists."--book jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2008.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Science Publishers
  • Place of Publication:Enfield, NH
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2008.

The Physical Object

  • Description:x, 352 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781578083879, 1578083877
  • oclc:ocn213408681
  • LC Classification:QL639.8
  • Dewey Decimal:597/.17

Table of Contents

Fish osmoregulation in special environments / A.J.R. Péqueux -- Alcolapia grahami : a fish inhabiting a highly alkaline environment of Lake Magadi, Kenya / Daniel W. Onyango and Seth M. Kisia -- Cave fishes : the consequences of the life in darkness / Jakob Parzefall -- Circadian rhythms in hypogean fish : with special reference to the cave loach, Nemacheilus evezardi / Atanu Kumar Pati -- Hemoglobinless Antarctic icefish : adaptations to living at sub-zero temperatures / Seth M. Kisia and Daniel W. Onyango -- Fish life in special environments : mitochondrial function in the cold / Helfa Guderly and Edouard Kraffe -- Hypoxic survival in two extremes : under the ice and on coral reefs / Göran E. Nilsson and Sara Östlund-Nilsson -- Endocrinology of migratory fish life cycle in special environments : the role of metamorphoses / Karine Rousseau and Sylvie Dufour -- Fish muscle function and pressure / Philippe Sébert -- Alepocephaloids, a key teleostean group : their myology, functional anatomy, phylogeny and specializations to deep-water environments / Rui Diogo -- Diversity and adaptation in deep-channel neotropical electric fishes / William G.R. Crampton.

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Subjects

Fishes -- Ecophysiology Fishes -- Habitat Poissons -- Écophysiologie Poissons -- Habitat

Writers

Kapoor, B. G. Onyango, Daniel W. Sébert, Philippe

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