General and comparative physiology
By William S. Hoar
- 3rd ed.
- New Delhi : Prentice Hall, 1991
- xii, 851 p.
The animal and its environment; The transformation of energy; Traffic through living barriers; Excitability of cell membranes; Homeostatic mechanisms; Receptor mechanisms; Photoreception; Nervous integration; The physiology of movement; Electrical discharge, light production and color changes; Nutrition and digestion; Body fluids and their circulation; The exchange of gases; Oxygen availability: metabolic and respiratory responses; Excretion; Osmotic and ionic regulation; Temperature; Reproduction; Endocrine regulation reproduction; Growth and development