General and comparative physiology (Prentice-Hall biological science series)

1. Sources Of Enery And Its Distribution -- 1. The Origin Of Animals And Their Environment -- 2. Regulatory Mechanisms -- 3. Nutrition -- 4. The Exchange Of Gases -- 5. The Internal Fluid Environment And Its Circulation -- 6. The Vascular Fluids -- 7. The Transformation Of Energy -- 8. Excretion -- 2. Environmental Relations -- 9. Physiological Compensation For Environmental Variation -- 10. Temperature -- 11. Ionic And Osmotic Balance -- 12. The Gaseous Environment -- 13. Pressure And Buoyancy -- 14. Light -- 3. Nervous Integration And Animal Activity -- 15. Irritability -- 16. Receptor Mechanisms -- 17. Reception Of Chemical, Mechanical And Thermal Stimuli -- 18. Photoreception -- 19. Effector Organs And The Physiology Of Movement -- 20. Electrical Discharge, Light Production And Color Changes -- 21. Nervous Integration -- 4. Reproduction And Development -- 22. Reproduction -- 23. Endocrine Regulation Of Reproduction -- 24. Growth And Development -- References -- Index. [by] William S. Hoar. Bibliography: P. 774-821.