ADATTAMENTI ECOFISIOLOGICI ALL'AMBIENTE

Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Antonella Russo
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: BIO/09 -
Taught classes: 35 hours
Laboratories: 12 hours
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Learning Objectives

Description/objectives: A comparative understanding of the mechanisms of environmental animal’s physiology; in particular we want to look in turn as ionic, osmotic issues, energy balance, circulating fluids, nerves, hormones. Cell membrane permeation and process for water diffusion, osmosis and channel movements for osmotic regulation, in different habitat; Oxygen carriage: pigments and their types and properties; different respiratory surfaces, haemolymph and blood vessel colloid osmotic pressure. Circulation and ventilation; The temperature and its effects: thermal acclimatation, behavioural regulation, migration; Anthropogenic problems. Olfacotory system, vision and CNS evolution and plasticity.


Detailed Course Content

A comparative understanding of the mechanisms of environmental animal’s physiology; in particular we want to look in turn as ionic, osmotic issues, energy balance, circulating fluids, nerves, hormones. Cell membrane permeation and process for water diffusion, osmosis and channel movements for osmotic regulation, in different habitat; Oxygen carriage: pigments and their types and properties; different respiratory surfaces, haemolymph and blood vessel colloid osmotic pressure. Circulation and ventilation; The temperature and its effects: thermal acclimatation, behavioural regulation, migration; Anthropogenic problems. Olfacotory system, vision and CNS evolution and plasticity.


Textbook Information

- Poli A.- Fisiologia degli animali- regolazione, diversità, adattamento- Zanichelli
- Willmer P., Stone G., Johnston I - Fisiologia ambientale degli animali- Zanichelli
- Randall D., Burggren W., French K.- Fisiologia animale- meccanismi e adattamenti- Zanichelli
- Autori vari – Environmental physiology ( a cura di Fregly MJ e Blatteis CM) – Oxford Univ. Press 1996