Library Guides @ VIU: Biol 305: Animal Physiology: Reference Materials

Reference Material - in print

The following titles are some examples of print reference materials available in the VIU Library regarding animal physiology:

Biological clock in fish, 2010
Call Number: QL 639.1 B56 2010 Stacks
Comparative hemostasis in vertebrates, 1996
Call Number: Call Number: QP 90.4 L48 1996 Stacks
Comparative physiology of the vertebrate digestive system, 1988
Call Number: Call Number: QP 145 S78 Stacks
Comparative vertebrate neuroanatomy : evolution and adaptation, 1996
Call Number: Call Number: QM 451 B895 1996 Stacks
Ecological and environmental physiology of birds, 2010
Call Number: QL 698.95 E24 2010 Stacks
Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia, 2003
Call Number: QL 7 G7813 2003 V.1-17 Stacks
Grzimek's encyclopedia of mammals, 1990
Call Number: QL 701.2 G7913 V.1-5 Stacks
Manual of ornithology : avian structure & function , 1993
Call Number: QL 697 P76 1993 Stacks
Physiological ecology of vertebrates : a view from energetics, 2002
Call Number: Call Number: Call Number: QP 82 M38 2002 Stacks
Physiology of fishes, 2003
Call Number: Call Number: QL 639.1 P49 2006 Stacks

Reference Material - online (electronic)

The following titles are some examples of online (electronic) reference materials available in the VIU Library regarding animal physiology:

Advances in Insect Physiology, 2014
Chemical signals in vertebrates 11, 2008
Circadian Rhythms : Biology, Cognition and Disorders
Comparative developmental physiology : contributions, tools, and trends , 2006
Encyclopedia of fish physiology: from genome to environment, 2011
Encyclopedia of Insects, 2014
Engineering animals: how life works, 2011
The Evolution of Flight
Hibernation and Torpor in Mammals and Birds, 2014
Mechanisms of Circadian Systems in Animals and Their Clinical Relevance, 2014
Muscular system of vertebrates, v.3, 2005
Neuroscience of Sleep, 2014
Oxford Reference Online - Biological Sciences
- an online dictionary that includes biology, ecology, animal behaviour, genetics, zoology, plant sciences, etc.
Physiological adaptations for breeding in birds, 2012
Physiological and ecological adaptations to feeding in vertebrates, 2005
Physiological systems in insects, 2008
Physiology and biochemistry of extremophiles, 2007
Physiology by numbers : an encouragement to quantitative thinking/ Burton, 2000
Contents: 1 Introduction to physiological calculation: approximation and units, 2. Quantifying the body, 3 Energy and metabolism, 4 The cardiovascular system, 5 Respiration, 6 Renal function, 7 Body Fluids, 8 Acid/Base balance, and 9 Nerve and muscle
Physiology of Fishes, 2013
The Rhythms Of Life : the Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing, 2010
Social insects: structure, function, and behavior , 2011
Sturkie's Avian Physiology, 2014
Thermal adaptation: A theoretical and empirical synthesis, 2009
- see chapter 4