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Devoted to fishes of high latitudes (Arctic and Antarctic). This book includes themes such as: the uniqueness of the physiology of fishes that live in cold polar environments, an analysis of physiological patterns exemplified by fishes that live poles apart, and how fishes differ from fishes living in more temperate and tropical habitats.

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Primitive fishes are a relatively untapped resource in the scientific search for insights into the evolution of physiological systems in fishes and higher vertebrates. Volume 26 in the Fish Physiology series presents what is known about the physiology of these fish in comparison with the two fish groups that dominate today, the modern elasmobranchs and the teleosts. Chapters include reviews on what is known about cardiovascular, nervous and ventilatory systems, gas exchange, ion and nitrogenous waste regulation, muscles and locomotion, endocrine systems, and reproduction. Editors prov

Fishes --- Living fossils. --- Physiology. --- Evolution. --- Fossils, Living --- Organisms --- 597.2 --- 597.3 --- 597.4 --- 591.1 --- 597.3 Elasmobranchii (Plagiostomata). Cartilaginous fishes. Selachii. Sharks etc. --- Elasmobranchii (Plagiostomata). Cartilaginous fishes. Selachii. Sharks etc. --- 597.2 Cyclostomata (Marsipobranchii). Lampreys. Hagfishes --- Cyclostomata (Marsipobranchii). Lampreys. Hagfishes --- 591.1 Animal physiology --- Animal physiology --- 597.4 Ganoidei --- Ganoidei

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Fish Physiology: Organic Chemical Toxicology of Fishes discusses the different types of organic chemical contaminants and their respective toxic effects in fish. The book also covers the detection of dissolved organic compounds and methods to assess organic toxicity. Substances addressed in this book include organometallics, hydrocarbons, endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), insecticides, herbicides, and pharmaceuticals. Fish are exposed to an ever-increasing array of organic chemicals that find their way into rivers and oceans. Some of these compounds are no longer being pr

Fishes --- Poisonous fishes --- Ciguatera --- Ichthyism --- Ichthyosarcotoxism --- Fishes, Effect of water pollution on --- Fish kills --- Effect of water pollution on. --- Toxicology. --- Toxicology --- Organic water pollutants. --- Physiology.

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Periods of environmental hypoxia (Low Oxygen Availability) are extremely common in aquatic systems due to both natural causes such as diurnal oscillations in algal respiration, seasonal flooding, stratification, under ice cover in lakes, and isolation of densely vegetated water bodies, as well as more recent anthropogenic causes (e.g. eutrophication). In view of this, it is perhaps not surprising that among all vertebrates, fish boast the largest number of hypoxia tolerant species; hypoxia has clearly played an important role in shaping the evolution of many unique adaptive strategies. These unique adaptive strategies either allow fish to maintain function at low oxygen levels, thus extending hypoxia tolerance limits, or permit them to defend against the metabolic consequences of oxygen levels that fall below a threshold where metabolic functions cannot be maintained. The aim of this volume is two-fold. First, this book will review and synthesize the adaptive behavioural, morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular strategies used by fish to survive hypoxia exposure and place them within an environmental and ecological context. Second, through the development of a synthesis chapter this book will serve as the cornerstone for directing future research into the effects of hypoxia exposures on fish physiology and biochemistry. Key Features: The only single volume available to provide an in-depth discussion of the adaptations and responses of fish to environmental hypoxia. Reviews and synthesizes the adaptive behavioural, morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular strategies used by fish to survive hypoxia exposure. Includes discussion of the evolutionary and ecological consequences of hypoxia exposure in fish.