TY - BOOK AU - Hoar,William Stewart TI - General and comparative physiology AV - QP31 .H57 U1 - 591.1 PY - 1966///] CY - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. PB - Prentice-Hall KW - Physiology, Comparative KW - Physiologie comparée N1 - Bibliography: p. 741-788; The origins of animals and their environment -- Regulatory mechanisms -- Nutrition -- The exchange of gases -- The internal fluid environment and its circulation -- The vascular fluids -- The transformation of energy -- Excretion -- Environmental relations -- Physiological compensation for environmental variation -- Temperature -- Ionic and osmotic balance -- The gaseous environment -- Pressure and buoyancy -- Light -- Nervous integration and animal activity -- Irritability -- Receptor mechanisms and chemoreception -- Photoreception -- Reception of mechanical and thermal stimuli -- Effector organs and the physiology of movement -- Electrical discharge, light production and color changes -- Nervous integration -- Reproduction and development -- Reproduction -- Endocrine regulation of reproduction -- Growth and development UR - http://www.archive.org/details/generalcomparati00hoar UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL5949772M ER -