Comparative animal physiology
/ C. Ladd Prosser and Frank A. Brown, Jr.
- 2nd ed.
- Philadelphia : Saunders, 1961
- 688 p. illus. 26 cm.
water: osmotic balance; inorganic ions; nutrition; feeding and digestion; nitrogen excretion; oxygen: respiration and metabolism; respiratory functions of body fluids; temperature; mechano reception, equilibrium reception and phonoreception; chemoreception; photoreception; circulation of body fluids; muscle and electric organs; amoeboid movement; cilia; trichocysts and nematocysts; bioluminescence; chromatophores and color change; endocrine mechanisms; nervous systems