Biochemical Adaptation
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Biochemical Adaptation

  1. 560 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Biochemical Adaptation

About this book

This book discusses biochemical adaptation to environments from freezing polar oceans to boiling hot springs, and under hydrostatic pressures up to 1,000 times that at sea level.

Originally published in 1984.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. Preface
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. 1. Biochemical Adaptation: Basic Mechanisms and Strategies
  8. 2. Design of Cellular Metabolism
  9. 3. Adaptation of Enzymes to Metabolic Functions
  10. 4. Exercise Adaptations
  11. 5. Limiting Oxygen Availability
  12. 6. Metabolic Adaptations to Diving
  13. 7. Off-Switches in Metabolism: From Anhydrobiosis to Hibernation
  14. 8. Mammalian Developmental Adaptations
  15. 9. Respiratory Proteins
  16. 10. Water-Solute Adaptations: The Evolution and Regulation of Biological Solutions
  17. 11. Temperature Adaptation
  18. 12. Adaptations to the Deep Sea
  19. References
  20. Index

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