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Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology helps biologists, physiologists, and biochemists keep track of the extensive literature in the field. Providing comprehensive, integrated reviews and sound, critical, and provocative summaries, this series is a must for all active researchers in environmental and comparative physiology.
List of contents
1 Protein Turnover in Ectotherms and Its Relationships to Energetics.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Methodological Problems; General Considerations.- 3 Effects of Body Size.- 4 Effects of Feeding and Starvation.- 5 Protein Turnover in Long-Term Growth Studies.- 6 Protein Growth and Synthesis in Tissues.- 7 Starvation.- 8 Exercise.- 9 Growth Hormone.- 10 Temperature, Salinity, and Oxygen.- 11 RNA to Protein Ratios and Protein Synthesis.- 12 Energy Cost of Protein Synthesis.- References.- 2 Organic Xenobiotic Metabolism in Marine Invertebrates.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Major Pathways of Biotransformation of Organic Xenobiotics.- 3 Porifera.- 4 Coelenterata.- 5 Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Nemertini and Minor Phyla.- 6 Annelida.- 7 Mollusca.- 8 Crustacea (Arthropoda).- 9 Echinodermata.- 10 Comparative Aspects.- Appendix: Calculation of Approximate in Vivo Rates of Xenobiotic Metabolism.- References.- 3 Lipoproteins from the Hemolymph and Ovaries of Marine Invertebrates.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Hemolymph Lipoproteins.- 3 Female-Specific Hemolymph Lipoproteins.- 4 Lipoproteins in Eggs and Ovaries.- 5 Pigments Associated with Lipoproteins.- 6 Sites of Egg Lipoprotein Synthesis.- 7 Summary.- References.
