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Biochemical adaptation / Peter W. Hochachka, George N. Somero.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1984]Copyright date: ©1984Description: 1 online resource (xx, 537 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400855414
  • 1400855411
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Biochemical adaptationDDC classification:
  • 574.5 23
LOC classification:
  • QP82 .H63 1984
Online resources:
Contents:
Biochemical adaptation: basic mechanisms and strategies -- Design of cellular metabolism -- Adaptation of enzymes to metabolic functions -- Exercise adaptations -- Limiting oxygen availability -- Metabolic adaptations to diving -- Off-switches in metabolism: from Anhydrobiosis to hibernation -- Mammalian developmental adaptations -- Respiratory proteins -- Water-solute adaptations: the evolution and regulation of biological solutions -- Temperature adaptation -- Adaptations to the deep sea.
Summary: This book discusses biochemical adaptation to environments from freezing polar oceans to boiling hot springs, and under hydrostatic pressures up to 1,000 times that at sea level.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biochemical adaptation: basic mechanisms and strategies -- Design of cellular metabolism -- Adaptation of enzymes to metabolic functions -- Exercise adaptations -- Limiting oxygen availability -- Metabolic adaptations to diving -- Off-switches in metabolism: from Anhydrobiosis to hibernation -- Mammalian developmental adaptations -- Respiratory proteins -- Water-solute adaptations: the evolution and regulation of biological solutions -- Temperature adaptation -- Adaptations to the deep sea.

This book discusses biochemical adaptation to environments from freezing polar oceans to boiling hot springs, and under hydrostatic pressures up to 1,000 times that at sea level.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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