Overview

This book on ancient fishes unites the work of many specialists coming from different areas of biology. Hagfishes, lungfishes, Chondrosteans, and Holosteans constitute the main subject of study. Fossil records and extant species are compared to establish the conservation or the degeneration of specific characters. However, phylogenetic relationships have mostly been revisited in the light of new molecular and developmental data. The morphology of several organs is also revisited. This volume includes a phylogenetic account of the cardiac outflow tract, and the particulars of the heart and circulation in lungfishes. The control of breathing and the lung-swim bladder issue is discussed. The developmental anatomy of the sturgeon gut and accounts of the gut structure in lungfishes and garfishes are also included. Biochemical and physiological aspects of the behavior of lungfishes and gars are presented. Reports on the fish olfactory system, and on the amazing slime glands of hagfishes, are also covered.

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Author:   Giacomo Zaccone ,  Konrad Dabrowski ,  Michael S. Hedrick ,  Jorge M. O. Fernandes
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Weight:   0.607kg
ISBN:  

9780367377526

ISBN 10:   0367377527
Pages:   305
Publication Date:   23 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface. Phylogenetic introduction. The occurrence and function of the NOS/NO system in the heart of the eel and the African lungfish. Evolutionary aspects on the comparative biology of lungfishes: emphasis on South American lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa. Developmental metabolism of the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri. Aestivation in African lungfishes: Physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. Anatomy of the heart and circulation in lungfishes. The cardiac outflow tract of primitive fishes.Control of breathing in primitive fishes. The lung-swimbladder issue and the complex hierarchical nature of homology: A simple case of homology - Or not? The gut and associated organs in the African lungfish Protopterus annectens. Morphology, histology and functional structure of the alimentary canal of sturgeon. The structural organization in the olfactory system of the teleosts and garfishes. Hagfish slime and slime glands.

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