By Nicholas J. Bernier,Glen Van Der Kraak,Anthony P. Farrell,Colin J. Brauner
The learn of fish neuroendocrinology has had an important effect on our normal realizing of the useful roles and evolution of quite a few neurochemical messengers and structures. not just do fish own precise neuroendocrine good points, they've got additionally been and stay an incredible vertebrate types for the invention of recent neuropeptides. within the final fifty years, neuroendocrinologists have documented a fancy and probably limitless variety of interactions among hormones and nerve constructions. steadily rising from this data is an knowing of the explicit neurohormonal pathways and the messengers chargeable for retaining homeostasis in an aquatic surroundings and for regulating the sensible platforms that permit for the hugely diversified lifestyles histories and reproductive strategies of fish
Despite its fresh progress, breadth and specified attributes, there's no unmarried textual content masking the self-discipline of fish neuroendocrinology. in reality, except a couple of mammalian neuroendocrinology textbooks, there's a severe loss of texts in comparative neuroendocrinology. at present, details at the anatomical association and serve as of many of the neuroendocrine platforms in fish is just on hand in unique study papers and reviews.
By supplying a present and complete quantity that highlights the explicit homes of fish neuroendocrinology, this e-book will transcend being the single reference textual content for fish neuroendocrinologists and also will serve comparative physiologists, endocrinologists, neuroanatomists and behaviourists drawn to figuring out the reciprocal activities among the worried and endocrine platforms.
* Highlights the explicit houses of fish neuroendocrinology
* Emphasises the diversity and diversity of interactions among neurobiology and endocrinology
* Discuses either anatomical and useful features of the Neuroendocrine system
* additionally serves comparative physiologists, endocrinologists, neuroanatomists and behaviourists drawn to figuring out the reciprocal activities among the anxious and endocrine systems