Comprehensive, contemporary, and engaging, Animal Physiology provides evolutionary and ecological context to help students make connections across all levels of physiological scale. One of the major challenges instructors and students face in Animal Physiology is making connections across levels of biological scale. Animal Physiology addresses this challenge by providing ecological and evolutionary context to the study of physiology at all levels of organization: genome, molecular biology, biochemistry, cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems.

Hill's inclusion of ecology and evolution helps readers gain a holistic perspective on animal function and sets Animal Physiology apart from texts that focus more narrowly on physiology. Hill's Animal Physiology is trusted by instructors and students because of its authoritative, current, engaging, and lavishly illustrated presentation.

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• New co-author, Daniel Cavanaugh (Loyola University Chicago), joins the team. All chapters on neurons and nervous systems provide updated content and pedagogy, including extensive reorganization and streamlining of chapters on neurons and synapses, enhanced coverage of sensory physiology and the vertebrate central nervous system, and updated discussion of the cellular-molecular mechanisms of circadian clocks.
• Enhanced genomics and molecular content-including a new section on proteins as molecular machines-is incorporated while retaining focus on the whole animal and ecological relations.
• Physiological implications of global change are discussed in new or expanded treatments of temperature, aridity, and environmental O2 availability and pH.
• Revised and updated sections on muscle mechanics clarify how the organ-level properties of muscle such as length, contraction speed, and architecture influence organismal performance.
• Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation are presented with all-new artwork; content on endocrine environmental physiology is greatly enhanced; sections on altitude physiology are completely rewritten to reflect current progress; treatment of epigenetics is expanded, including epigenetic effects on the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis; metabolomic insights into hibernation are incorporated; tracheal breathing systems, open circulatory systems, diving by marine mammals, and comparative mammalian kidney architecture (and functional implications) are illustrated with new, cutting-edge images; evolution of osmoregulation is discussed with the latest insights from species with multiple freshwater colonization events.
• All figures have been reviewed for pedagogical effectiveness and increased accessibility: more than 140 figures have been revised and over 50 new figures incorporated, plus greatly enhanced use of drawings and photos to familiarize readers with the animals under study.
• New to the Fifth Edition and available on the Oxford Learning Link site, a curated list with links to over 130+ relevant and engaging videos to be used in lecture presentation.
• Embracing opportunities for a "less is more" approach, hundreds of sentences and dozens of paragraphs have been improved for efficiency and effectiveness.
• Word counts have been reduced by 5-10% in virtually all chapters to streamline presentation and permit a more open design format.
• Enhanced ebook with Dynamic Animations and Figures, Learning Objectives, Self-Assessments, End-of-Chapter Assignable Quizzes, Flashcards, Box Extensions, and Additional References.

New to this Edition

• NEW Learning Objectives (in enhanced E-book ONLY)
• NEW In-line Dynamic Animated Figures
• NEW Self-assessments; 3 multiple choice questions after each section header
• NEW "Guest Box" stories
• 200 upgraded illustrations
• "Less is more", word count has been reduced by 10% from previous ed.
• Updated genomics and molecular content, proteins as molecular machines

Preface

Part I  Fundamentals of Physiology

• Chapter 1 Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage
• Chapter 2 Molecules and Cells in Animal Physiology
• Chapter 3 Genomics, Proteomics, and Related Approaches to Physiology
• Chapter 4 Physiological Development and Epigenetics
• Chapter 5 Transport of Solutes and Water

Part II  Food, Energy, and Temperature

• Chapter 6 Nutrition, Feeding, and Digestion
• Chapter 7 Energy Metabolism
• Chapter 8 Aerobic and Anaerobic Forms of Metabolism
• Chapter 9 The Energetics of Aerobic Activity
• Chapter 10 Thermal Relations
• Chapter 11 Food, Energy, and Temperature AT WORK: The Lives of Mammals in Frigid Places

Part III  Integrating Systems

• Chapter 12 Neurons
• Chapter 13 Synapses
• Chapter 14 Sensory Processes
• Chapter 15 Nervous System Organization and Biological Clocks
• Chapter 16 Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Physiology
• Chapter 17 Reproduction
• Chapter 18 Integrating Systems AT WORK: Animal Navigation

Part IV  Movement and Muscle

• Chapter 19 Control of Movement
• Chapter 20 Muscle
• Chapter 21 Movement and Muscle AT WORK: Plasticity in Response to Use and Disuse

Part V  Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport

• Chapter 22 Introduction to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Physiology
• Chapter 23 External Respiration: The Physiology of Breathing
• Chapter 24 Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Body Fluids (with an Introduction to Acid- Base Physiology)
• Chapter 25 Circulation
• Chapter 26 Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Internal Transport AT WORK: Diving by Marine Mammals

Part VI Water, Salts, and Excretion

• Chapter 27 Water and Salt Physiology: Introduction and Mechanisms
• Chapter 28 Water and Salt Physiology of Animals in Their Environments
• Chapter 29 Kidneys and Excretion (with Notes on Nitrogen Excretion)
• Chapter 30 Water, Salts, and Excretion AT WORK: Mammals of Deserts and Dry Savannas

Appendix

Glossary

Index

Richard Hill, UNITED STATES

Richard W. Hill, Michigan State University Margaret Anderson, Emerita, Smith College Daniel Cavanaugh, Loyola University Chicago

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