| Authors | Suzanne Currie & David H. Evans |
| ISBN | 9780367477554 |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 242 |
| Size | 216 x 277 x 19 mm |
| Format | Paperback |
| Images | Colour images and illustrations |
| Year published | 2020 |
The fifth edition of The Physiology of Fishes represents a compendium of knowledge across fish physiology, collecting up-to-date research into an easy-to-access single textbook. Written by the leaders in the field, it provides a comprehensive, accessible review of the core topics, integrating physiology with environmental science, ecology, evolution, and molecular cell biology. New chapters address Epigenetics, Biomechanics and Locomotion, and Behaviour and Learning.
Each chapter contains an extensive bibliography, providing readers with the best sources from the primary literature. Almost three decades after the publication of the first edition, this book remains the only published single-volume work on fish physiology. The fifth edition provides an important reference for new students of fish biology, marine and freshwater biologists, ichthyologists, fisheries scientists, and comparative physiologists.
Contents
- Evolution and Phylogeny
- Locomotion and Biomechanics
- Gas Exchange
- Cardiovascular System
- Iono- and Osmoregulation
- The digestive system
- Thermal Biology
- Fish endocrinology: an evolutionary perspective on neuroendocrine axes in teleosts
- Reproduction
- Metabolism
- Hearing by Fishes.Active Electroreception And Electrocommunication
- Vision
- Olfaction
- Aquaculture and Fisheries
- Epigenetics
- Behaviour and Learning
