Metazoan Life without Oxygen / Edition 1

by C. Bryant

Overview

Many multicellular animals do not require oxygen to live but respire anaerobically. Some of these have adapted to hostile environments, such as sulphide rich habitats, others live as parasites within host organisms, while others still can perhaps be said to look back on the early days of life on earth before anaerobic respiration had evolved.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780412333606
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/31/1990
Edition description:	1991
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.03(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

it certainly makes a valuable contribution to the subject of anaerobic metabolism - TIBS

From the Publisher

Contributors from biological, earth, and health sciences discuss how animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago coped with the lack of oxygen in the environment or the temporary interruption of oxygen to their vital organs. Taking an evolutionary approach, the 14 studies present detailed summaries for each major animal group, describe the physical chemistry of oxygen, examine the perils and opportunities afforded by the presence of free oxygen radicals, trace the geochronology of oxygen accumulation in the environment and the first adaptations to it, detail the biochemistry of the enzyme system that makes anaerobics possible, survey ancient invertebrate and vertebrate phyla, and puzzle over the dependence of modern animals on anaerobic processes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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