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Many multicellular animals do not require oxygen to live but respire anaerobically. Some of these have adapted to hostile environments, such as sulphide rich habitats, others live as parasites within host organisms, while others still can perhaps be said to look back on the early days of life on earth before anaerobic respiration had evolved.
Sommario
The physical chemistry of oxygen, D.L.Scott; the role of oxygen free radicals in biology and evolution, H.M.Hassan and J.R.Schiavone; the early environment, R.J.F.Jenkins; oxygen and the evolution of the metazoan, B.Runnegar; fumarate reductase and the evolution of electron transport systems, C.A.Behm; metazoan adaptors to hydrogen sulphide, R.D.Vetter et al; interstitial meiofauna, W.L.Nicholas; parasitic helminths, J.Barrett; annalids, U.Schottler and E.M. Bennet; molluscs. A. de Zwaan; arthropods, E,Zebe; the metabolic arrest and channel arrest concepts of defence against hypoxia in vertebrates, R.A.F.Chevis; anoxibiosis in living Metazoa - an overview, C.S.Hammen.
Riassunto
Beginning with an outline of the physical chemistry of oxygen and its role in evolution, this book examines the ability of organisms to survive without oxygen and progresses from simple organisms, such as Metazoans, to more complicated ones, such as arthropods and vertebrates.
Relazione
it certainly makes a valuable contribution to the subject of anaerobic metabolism - TIBS
