Sturkie's avian physiology

"Sturkie's Avian Physiology, Seventh Edition is the classic, comprehensive, single volume on the physiology of domestic and wild birds. This latest edition is thoroughly revised and updated with several new chapters with entirely new content on such topics as vision, sensory taste, pain reception, evolution and domestication. Chapters throughout have been greatly expanded due to the many recent advances in the field. This book is written by international experts in different aspects of avian physiology. For easy reading and searches, the book is structured under a series of themes, beginning with genomic studies, sensory biology and nervous systems, and major organs. This book is an important resource for ornithologists, poultry scientists, and other researchers in avian studies. It is also useful for students in avian or poultry physiology, as well as avian veterinarians"--Publisher's description.

I. Undergirding themes. The importance of avian physiology -- Avian genomics -- Transcriptomic analysis of physiological systems -- Avian proteomics -- Avian metabolomics -- Mitochondrial physiology -- Evolution of birds -- Domestication of poultry -- II. Sensory biology and nervous system theme. The avian somatosensory system: a comparative view -- Avian vision -- Avian hearing -- Chemesthesis and olfaction -- Taste in birds -- Avian nociception and pain -- Magnetoreception in birds and its use for longdistance migration∗ -- The avian subpallium and autonomic nervous system -- Blood -- III. Organ system theme. The cardiovascular system -- Renal and extrarenal regulation of body fluid composition -- Respiration -- Gastrointestinal anatomy and physiology -- Avian bone physiology and poultry bone disorders -- Skeletal muscle -- Immunophysiology of the avian immune system -- IV. Metabolism theme. Carbohydrate metabolism -- Adipose tissue and lipid metabolism -- Protein metabolism -- Food intake regulation -- V. Endocrine theme. Overviews of avian neuropeptides and peptides -- Pituitary gland -- Thyroid gland -- Mechanisms and hormonal regulation of shell formation: supply of ionic an…