Comprehensive, contemporary, and engaging, Animal Physiology provides evolutionary and ecological context to help students make connections across all levels of physiological scale. One of the major challenges instructors and students face in Animal Physiology is making connections across levels of biological scale. Animal Physiology addresses this challenge by providing ecological and evolutionary context to the study of physiology at all levels of organization: genome, molecular biology, biochemistry, cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems. Hill's inclusion of ecology and evolution helps readers gain a holistic perspective on animal function and sets Animal Physiology apart from texts that focus more narrowly on physiology. Hill's Animal Physiology is trusted by instructors and students because of its authoritative, current, engaging, and lavishly illustrated presentation.
Preface Part I Fundamentals of PhysiologyChapter 1 Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological StageChapter 2 Molecules and Cells in Animal PhysiologyChapter 3 Genomics, Proteomics, and Related Approaches to PhysiologyChapter 4 Physiological Development and EpigeneticsChapter 5 Transport of Solutes and WaterPart II Food, Energy, and TemperatureChapter 6 Nutrition, Feeding, and DigestionChapter 7 Energy MetabolismChapter 8 Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of MetabolismChapter 9 The Energetics of Aerobic ActivityChapter 10 Thermal RelationsChapter 11 Food, Energy, and Temperature AT WORK: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid PlacesPart III Integrating SystemsChapter 12 NeuronsChapter 13 SynapsesChapter 14 Sensory ProcessesChapter 15 Nervous System Organization and Biological ClocksChapter 16 Endocrine and Neuroendocrine PhysiologyChapter 17 ReproductionChapter 18 Integrating Systems AT WORK: Animal NavigationPart IV Movement and MuscleChapter 19 Control of MovementChapter 20 MuscleChapter 21 Movement and Muscle AT WORK: Plasticity in Response to Use and DisusePart V Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal TransportChapter 22 Introduction to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in PhysiologyChapter 23 External Respiration: The Physiology of BreathingChapter 24 Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Body Fluids (with an Introduction to Acid- Base Physiology)Chapter 25 CirculationChapter 26 Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport AT WORK: Diving by Marine MammalsPart VI Water, Salts, and ExcretionChapter 27 Water and Salt Physiology: Introduction and MechanismsChapter 28 Water and Salt Physiology of Animals in Their EnvironmentsChapter 29 Kidneys and Excretion (with Notes on Nitrogen Excretion)Chapter 30 Water, Salts, and Excretion AT WORK: Mammals of Deserts and Dry SavannasAppendixGlossary Index
