Biochemical Evolution

Biochemical Evolution focuses on the processes, approaches, and methodologies involved in biochemical evolution, including biochemical systems, digestion, metabolism, and morphology.

The publication first offers information on the unity of the biochemical plan of animals, dissimilarities, and evolution of biochemical constituents, as well as biochemical analogs and homologs and evolution of biochemical constituents. The text then ponders on orthogenetic evolution of biochemical systems and biochemical adaptations. Discussions focus on respiratory function, hydrolytic processes of digestion, protein metabolism, ammonemia, domain of glucemia, and marine, fresh-water, and terrestrial animals.

The manuscript takes a look at systematic characters, including the biochemical characteristics of vertebrates, tunicates, cyclostomes, elasmobranchs, insects, sipunculids, and the taxonomy of biochemical characteristics. The text then tackles perspectives, as well as mechanism of biochemical evolution, biochemistry and morphology, and irreversibility of lost biochemical characters.

The book is a dependable source of data for readers interested in biochemical evolution.

Contenu

Foreword
Translator's Preface
Chapter I. Unity of the Biochemical Plan of Animals
Chapter II. Dissimilarities
Chapter III. Evolution of Biochemical Constituents
A. Biochemical Analogs

1. Oxygen Carriers
2. Phosphate Carriers
3. Electron Carriers
4. Osmotic Crystalloids
   B. Biochemical Homologs
   C. Evolution of Biochemical Constituents
   Chapter IV. Orthogenetic Evolution of Biochemical Systems
   A. Milieu Interieur (Internal Medium)
   B. Respiratory Function
   C. Hydrolytic Processes of Digestion
   D. Protein Metabolism
   E. Ammonemia
   F. Purine Metabolism
   Chapter V. Biochemical Adaptations
   Biochemical Characteristics in Relation to Anatomical, Physiological, and Ecological Characteristics
   A. Domain of Respiratory Function
5. Protein Content and Anatomical Localization of the Internal Medium
6. Size and Localization of Oxygen Carriers
7. Presence or Absence of the Bohr Effect and Localization of Oxygen Carriers
8. Meaning and Magnitude of the Bohr Effect and Physiological and Ecological Characteristics of Animals
9. The Oxygen Tension at the Base of the Respiratory Cycle and the Activity of the Animal
10. Loading Pressure of the Oxygen Carrier and the Partial Pressure of Arterial Oxygen
11. The Oxygen Carrier and Metabolic Needs of the Animal
12. Oxygen Carrier and the Special Ecological Condition of an Echiuroid, Urechis Caupo
    B. Domain of Glucemia
13. Presence or Absence of a Circulatory System and Presence or Absence of Coelomic Glucemia
14. Physiology of Glucemia and the Ecological Condition of Sipunculus
15. Physiology of Glucemia and the Ecological Conditions of Two Decapod Crustacea
16. Physiology of Glucemia and Ecological Condition in the Bee
    C. Domain of Digestion
17. Nature of Hydrolytic Systems and Ecological Conditions
18. Collagenase and the Ecology of Lucilla Larvae
19. Chitinase and the Special Ecology of Pseudagenia Larvae
20. Reductant and the Special Ecology of Keratinophages
    D. Domain of Photoreception
    E. Domain of Osmoregulation
21. Osmoregulation in Marine Euryhalines
22. Osmoregulation of Fresh-Water Invertebrates
23. Osmoregulation in Fresh-Water Teleosts
24. Osmoregulation in Marine Teleosts
25. Osmoregulation in Marine Elasmobranchs
26. Osmoregulation of Fresh-Water Elasmobranchs
27. Osmoregulation in Terrestrial Animals
28. Evolution of Osmoregulation in Vertebrates
    F. Marine, Fresh-Water and Terrestrial Animals
    Chapter VI. Systematic Characters
    A. Biochemical Characteristics of Vertebrates
    B. Biochemical Characteristics of Tunicates
    C. Biochemical Characteristics of Cyclostomes
    D. Biochemical Characteristics of Elasmobranchs
    E. Biochemical Characteristics of Sipunculids
    F. Biochemical Characteristics of Insects
    G. Taxonomy of Biochemical Characteristics
    Chapter VII. Perspectives
    A. Biochemistry and Morphology
    B. Mechanism of Biochemical Evolution
    C. Biochemical Aspects of the Law of Serres
    D. Reversibility of Biochemical Evolution
    E. Irreversibility of Lost Biochemical Characters
    References
    Zoological Classification
    Author Index
    Subject Index
    Index of Animals I
    Index of Animals II