ENGLISH

The Physiology of Developing Fish: Viviparity and Posthatching Juveniles

By W.S. Hoar and D.J. Randall (Eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
1988
ISBN
9780123504340, 0123504341
ISSN
1546-5098
Open Library ID
OL10071709M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (25845932 bytes)
Series
Fish Physiology 11, Part B
Pages
ii-ix, 1-436\457
Library
duansci.com
Time added
2010-05-12 16:22:54

Description

FROM THE PREFACE: Dramatic changes occur in the physiology of most animals during their development. Among the vertebrates, birds are entirely oviparous, live for variable periods in a cleidoic egg, and show fundamental alterations in excretion, nutrition, and respiration at the time of hatching. In contrast, the eutherian mammals are all viviparous, depend on the maternal circulation and a specialized placenta to provide food, exchange gases, and discharge wastes. The physiology of both mother and fetus is highly specialized during gestation and changes fundamentally at the time of birth. Fishes exemplify both the oviparous and the viviparous modes of development, with some examples that are intermediate between the two. In these two volumes, selected reviews of many, but not all, aspects of development are presented. The chapters in Part A relate to the physiology of eggs and larvae; those in Part B concern viviparity and the physiology of posthatching juvenile fishes.

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