Animal Osmoregulation

• Provides detailed examples of the process of water transport at the organismal, organ and cellular level
• Incorporates clear background information on ion regulation and transport, specifically in the light of recent molecular studies
• Illustrates the physical principles to which each organism must adhere, and the phylogenetic constraints within which it must operate
• Collates a widely dispersed literature to produce a comprehensive and authoritative synthesis

Readership: This accessible text is suitable for both senior undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in comparative animal physiology and environmental physiology. It will also be of value and use to the many professional physiologists requiring a concise overview of the topic.

Timothy J. Bradley, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA

"Well written, informative, easy to understand, and provides a solid overview on this topic, with an emphasis on animal diversity and evolutionary histories." - The Quarterly Review of Biology

Introduction
1: The Properties of Water
2: Osmosis
3: The Interaction of Water with Organic Solutes
4: The Need for, and often Conflicting Issues of, Osmoregulation and Volume Regulation
5: Osmoconformers
6: Hyporegulators
7: Hyper-regulators: Life in Fresh Water
8: Terrestrial Animals
9: Membranes as Sites of Energy Transduction
10: Transport of Ions and Water in Epithelia: Molecular Insights
11: Volume and Osmotic Regulation