Fishes of Antarctica: A Biological Overview (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9788847000285)

A Comparison of Adaptive Radiations of Antarctic Fish with those of NonAntarctic Fish.- Age, Growth and Maximum Size of Antarctic Notothenioid Fish - Revisited.- Maternal Output in Polar Fish Reproduction.- Development, Dispersal and Recruitment: A Paradox for Survival Among Antarctic Fish.- The Pelagic Fish Community of the Polar Frontal Zone off the Kerguelen Islands.- Preliminary Investigations on the Evolution of the Tribe Electronini (Myctophiformes, Myctophidae).- Diversity of Digenea, Parasites of Fishes in Various Areas of the Antarctic.- Cold Adaptation and Stenothermy in Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes: What Has Been Gained and What Has Been Lost.- Do Antarctic Fish Respond to Heat Shock?.- Aspects of Eco-Physiological Adaptations in Antarctic Fish.- The Oxidative Metabolism of Antarctic Fish: Some Peculiar Aspects of Cold Adaptation.- Molecular Adaptation of Microtubules and Microtubule Motors from Antarctic Fish.- Metallothionein in Antarctic Fish.- Respiration and Activity of Arctic and Antarctic Fish with Different Modes of Life: A Multivariate Analysis of Experimental Data.- Antarctic Fish Immunoglobulins: Preliminary Data on Structure and Antibody Specificity.- Vascular Adaptations for a Low Pressure/High Flow Blood Supply to Locomotory Muscles of Antarctic Icefish.- Cardiac and Locomotory Muscle Mass in Antarctic Fishes.- Natriuretic Peptides in Antarctic Teleosts: Cardiac Receptors in Chionodraco hamatus and Trematomus bernacchii.- Atrial Natriuretic Peptides in Antarctic Fish.- Exercise in the Cold: High Energy Turnover in Antarctic Fish.- Ion and Metabolite Transport Through the Intestinal Luminal Membranes of the Antarctic Fish Trematomus bernacchii.- The Neuroendocrine System in the Intestinal Tract and Pancreas of Antarctic Fish.- Four Years in Notothenioid Systematics: A Molecular Perspective.- Chromosome Diversification in Antarctic Fish (Notothenioidei).- Phylogeny of the Channichthyidae (Notothenioidei, Teleostei) Based on Two Mitochondrial Genes.- Allozymic Polymorphism and Phylogeny of the Family Channichthyidae.- Origin and Mechanism of Evolution of Antifreeze Glycoproteins in Polar Fishes.- Evolution of Sensory Systems: A Comparison of Antarctic and Deep-Sea Ichthyofauna.- Molecular Adaptations in Antarctic Fish Hemoglobins.- Evolutionary Studies on Teleost Hemoglobin Sequences.

Author: G. Di Prisco
ISBN-10: 8847000289
ISBN-13: 9788847000285
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 09/18/1998
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d