Edited By: Adalberto Luis Val and BG Kapoor
418 pages, B/w plates, illus, figs, tabs
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Contains a variety of accounts, by various contributors, ranging from fish adaptations to Amazonian Blackwater, fish adaptations to pressure, osmoregulatory adaptations, and adaptations of the elasmobranch electroreceptive system.
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Fish adaptations to Amazonian blackwaters; hypoxia tolerance and adaptations in fishes - the case of Amazon cichlids; steady swimming by fishes - kinetic properties and power production by the aerobic musculature; fish adaptations to pressure; morphological adaptations in the digestive system of Antarctic notothenioid fishes; fish feeding and nutrition in intensive systems; vitamins C, D and E in fish; osmoregulatory adaptations of freshwater teleosts; environmental pollution and fish gill morphology; adaptations in the elasmobranch electroreceptive system; morphological adaptations of pearlfish (carapidae) to their various habitats; homologies and evolutionary transformation of the skeletal elements of catfish (teleostei - siluriformes) suspensorium - a morphofunctional hypothesis; chromosomal changes and adaptation of cichlid fishes during evolution; cytogenetics and evolution in extreme environment - the case of Antarctic fishes; eyes and vision of the New Zealand torrentfish Cheimarrichthys fosteri von Haast (1874) - histology, photochemistry and electrophysiology; seasonal changes in fish hepatocytes and correlations with the endocrine system.
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Edited By: Adalberto Luis Val and BG Kapoor
418 pages, B/w plates, illus, figs, tabs