Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Adaptation of biological membranes to temperature: biophysical perspectives and molecular mechanisms
- Temperature adaptation: molecular aspects
- Stenotherms and eurytherms: mechanisms establishing thermal optima and tolerance ranges
- Ecological and evolutionary physiology of stress proteins and the stress response: the Drosophila melanogaster model
- Temperature adaptation and genetic polymorphism in aquatic animals
- Phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptations of mitochondria to temperature
- Temperature and ontogeny in ectotherms: muscle phenotype in fish
- Ectotherm life-history responses to developmental temperature
- Testing evolutionary hypotheses of acclimation
- Experimental investigations of evolutionary adaptation to temperature
- Thermal evolution of ectotherm body size: why get big in the cold?
- Physiological correlates of daily torpor in hummingbirds
- Development of thermoregulation in birds: physiology, interspecific variation and adaptation to climate
- Evolution of endothermy in mammals, birds and their ancestors
- The influence of climate change on the distribution and evolution of organisms
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Adaptation of biological membranes to temperature: biophysical perspectives and molecular mechanisms
- Temperature adaptation: molecular aspects
- Stenotherms and eurytherms: mechanisms establishing thermal optima and tolerance ranges
- Ecological and evolutionary physiology of stress proteins and the stress response: the Drosophila melanogaster model
- Temperature adaptation and genetic polymorphism in aquatic animals
- Phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptations of mitochondria to temperature
- Temperature and ontogeny in ectotherms: muscle phenotype in fish
- Ectotherm life-history responses to developmental temperature
- Testing evolutionary hypotheses of acclimation
- Experimental investigations of evolutionary adaptation to temperature
- Thermal evolution of ectotherm body size: why get big in the cold?
- Physiological correlates of daily torpor in hummingbirds
- Development of thermoregulation in birds: physiology, interspecific variation and adaptation to climate
- Evolution of endothermy in mammals, birds and their ancestors
- The influence of climate change on the distribution and evolution of organisms
- Index
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- Animals and TemperaturePhenotypic and Evolutionary Adaptation, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996