The Physiological Ecology of Tunas by Gary Sharp PDF

By Gary Sharp

The Physiological Ecology of Tunas records the lawsuits of the Tuna body structure Workshop held on the nationwide Marine Fisheries provider Southwest Fisheries middle at l. a. JoDa, California, January 10-15, 1977. The contributions made by means of researchers on the workshop are equipped into seven chapters. the 1st bankruptcy contains reports at the morphological variety and muscle-tissue-specific enzymatic attributes of scombrids. Papers within the moment bankruptcy care for the built-in points of tuna habit and features that outcome from their advanced cardiovascular process. The 3rd bankruptcy comprises reviews on skipjack tuna white muscle and the locomotor muscular tissues of Scomber and Katsuwonus. The fourth bankruptcy specializes in the thermal biology of tunas whereas the 5th bankruptcy examines the hydromechanics of tuna propulsion. The 6th bankruptcy offers details on lively expenditures of tunas, and observations on physiological calls for and correlates. It culminates with a conceptual version for the complicated existence cycle of the extant "ultimate tuna," the Atlantic bluefin tuna. The 7th bankruptcy discusses purposes of tuna body structure studies.

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