Comparative Vertebrate Endocrinology

Author: Peter J. Bentley
Published: May 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521620023
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 526

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The completely revised third edition of this popular text provides a description of hormones in animals and considers their evolution and roles in coordinating bodily functions such as nutrition, reproduction, and the control of calcium, water and salt levels in the body. Information about the hormones is thoroughly integrated with knowledge of the animals' basic physiology and manner of life. The book emphasizes the differences in hormone function between different species living in contrasting natural environments.

Table of Contents:

Preface to the third edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction 1
2 Comparative morphology of the endocrine tissues 15
3 The chemical structure, polymorphism, and evolution of hormones 65
4 The life history of hormones 177
5 Hormones and nutrition 223
6 Hormones and calcium metabolism 269
7 Hormones and the integument 303
8 Hormones and osmoregulation 337
9 Hormones and reproduction 379
References 457
Index 515

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