Download or read book Animals and Environmental Fitness: Abstracts written by European Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1980 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals and Environmental Fitness: Physiological and Biochemical Aspects of Adaptation and Ecology, Volume 2 contains the proceedings of the First Conference of the European Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry held in Liège, Belgium, on August 27-31, 1979. The papers explore the physiology and biochemistry of animal adaptation and ecology and cover topics ranging from amino acid transport and metabolism during osmotic shock to the role of organic compounds in osmoregulation in plants and animals. This volume is comprised of 89 chapters and begins with an analysis of the transpo ...