Living in a Seasonal World

Thermoregulatory and Metabolic Adaptations

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

This book summarises the newest information on seasonal adaptation in animals. Like the past symposia, this meeting – and consequently the book – is aimed not only at hibernation but at covering the full range of animal adaptations to seasonal environments.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-05-09
Mått:155 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt:867 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:566
Upplaga:2012
Förlag:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN:9783642431265

Utforska kategorier

Cellbiologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Biologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Innehållsförteckning

A single origin of heterothermy in mammals. - Afrotropical heterothermy: a continuum of possibilities. -Tropical heterothermy - does the exception prove the rule or force a re-definition? Hibernation in free-ranging African woodland dormice, Graphiurus murinus.- Evolutionary ecology of mammalian hibernation phenology.- Inter-relationships among timing of hibernation, reproduction, and warming soil in free-living female arctic ground squirrel.- Assessing the effect of climate change on hibernating mammals using computer intensive methods.- Impact of climatic variation on the hibernation physiology of Muscardinus avellanarius.- Comparison of variables of torpor between populations of a hibernating subtropical/tropical bat at different latitudes.- The Other Functions of Torpor.- Survival, aging, and life-history tactics in mammalian hibernators.- Does Age matter? Effects of age on hibernation patterns in edible dormice (Glis glis).- Sex and seasonality: reproduction in the echidna (Tachylossus aculeatus).- Sex differences in foraging behavior, body fat, and hibernation patterns of free-ranging Common hamsters .- Summer sexual segregation and true winter hibernation by a subtropical bat.- Heterothermy in caprimulgid birds: a review of inter- and intraspecific variation in free ranging populations.- The brain at low temperature: tau hyperphosphorylation dynamics in hibernation and torpor.- The hibernation-related peptide TSKY acts as a neuroprotector in cultured pond snail neurons.- The torpor-arousal cycle is controlled by an endogenous clock.- Ultradian episodes of thermogenesis in mammals - implications for the timing of torpor entry and arousal.- Spontaneous daily torpor versus starvation-induced hypothermia: two sides of a medal or distinct phenomena? Does the road traveled matter?Natural versus prematurely induced arousal from torpor.- The hibernating immune system.- The Relationship between White Nose Syndrome and Dietary PUFA levels in Bats.- Impact of Hibernation on Gut Microbiota and Intestinal Barrier Function in Ground Squirrels.- Cardiac electrical alternans and ventricular fibrillation during hypothermia in non-hibernating versus hibernating animals: role of propagation velocity and dispersion of depolarization.- Neonatal Deep Hypothermia: Heart Function and Metabolism.- Seasonal Changes in Thermoregulatory Strategies of Tegu Lizards.- Phylogenetic background of hibernation and hibernation-specific proteins (HP) in Sciuridae.- Adenosine, AMP, and Daily Torpor .- On the dissimilarity of 5’-AMP induced hypothermia and torpor in mice.- Potential mechanisms of metabolic suppression downstream of central A1AR activation during onset of torpor.- Fast In, Slow Out: Patterns and Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Metabolic Suppression in Mammalian Hibernation.- Adjustments of mitochondrial energy transduction in response to physiological and environmental challenge.- Redox Metabolism during Tropical Diapause in a Lepidoptera Larva.- Biochemical regulation of carbohydrate metabolism in hibernating bats .- Theme and variation: proteomic changes across three organs in hibernation cycles of the 13 lined ground squirrel.- Putting the brakes on protein synthesis in mammalian hibernation.- Brown adipose tissue - a seasonal tissue in mammals, including humans? Systematic screening for mutant mouse lines with defects in body temperature regulation.- Diurnal changes in metabolic rate in pygmy marmosets: Implications for sleep, torpor, and basal metabolism in primates.- Torpor use and body mass gain during pre-hibernation in late-born juvenile garden dormice exposed to food shortage.- Seasonal variations in energy turnover and body temperature in free-living edibledormice, Glis glis.- The effect of ambient temperature on body mass, torpor, food intake, and leptin levels: implications on the regulation of food intake in mammalian hibernator.- Monthly sex differences in circulating hormones in free-living Callospermophilus lateralis (Golden-mantled ground squirrels).- Pufas, Prostaglandine, seasonality.- Genes Expression of Orexigenic and Anorexigenic Neuropeptides during the Fattening and Hibernation Period in Daurian Ground Squirrel (Urocitellus dauricus).