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Respiratory Biology of Animals Respiratory Biology of Animals Evolutionary and Functional Morphology Steven F. Perry Institut für Zoologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany Markus Lambertz Institut für Zoologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany Sektion Herpetologie, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Germany Anke Schmitz Institut für Zoologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Steven F. Perry, Markus Lambertz, & Anke Schmitz 2019 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First Edition published in 2019 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Control Number: 2019945437 ISBN 978–0–19–923846–0 (hbk.) ISBN 978–0–19–923847–7 (pbk.) DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199238460.001.0001 Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY We wish to dedicate this book to the memory of Steve Morris (1956–2009), whose untimely death was a great loss, not only for respiratory biology. Preface This book is meant to be a supplementary text for relatively recent overview or review articles on cer- advanced courses in metabolic physiology, evolu- tain subjects rather than referencing all of the pri- tionary biology, or related areas. As prerequisites we mary sources. This book was never intended to suggest courses in general biology, general zoology, serve as an encyclopaedic reference volume. We animal physiology, and comparative anatomy. In therefore frequently selected interesting examples addition, it may be of interest to students of medi- to illustrate a given phenomenon as a case in point, cine, biophysics, biochemistry, or related areas of rather than providing a complete list of all known molecular biology. To this end, we do not delve into details in each and every species that has been the nuts and bolts of biochemistry, biophysics, and examined. Furthermore and most importantly, you molecular biology, but rather emphasize the over- may not find all the answers you are interested in, arching evolutionary implications and basic prin- but instead regularly will be confronted with per- ciples that the study of respiratory biology can sisting questions. This is in keeping with the pri- illustrate. But since special courses in respiratory mary intention of this book, which was to expose physiology are not offered everywhere, we perhaps respiratory biology as a fertile ground for further go into this area in a bit more detail than would be research, in fact on all levels from molecular to evo- expected in a book on functional and evolutionary lutionary considerations. We hope that you will morphology. The same applies to the control of enjoy the read and in turn look forward to reading breathing, and some basic information must be sup- new advancements in this field from your end as plied in order to understand the more detailed well, some of which may even be stimulated by descriptions that follow. As we will discover again critically reading the present volume. and again: ‘Before you can do what you want to do, Bonn, you always have to do something else’. January 2019 In general, it was our intention to provide an The authors overview of the big picture of the evolution of res- piration in animals. We consequently regularly cite vii Acknowledgements First of all we would like to thank our publisher Oxford order: Thorsten Burmester (Hamburg, Germany), University Press for their incredible patience with us Jon F. Harrison (Tempe, AZ, USA), John B. West (San before this book eventually became finished. We fur- Diego, CA, USA), Jürgen Markl (Mainz, Germany), thermore wish to express our sincerest thanks to those Richard J.A. Wilson (Calgary, Canada). M.L. gratefully colleagues who read preliminary drafts of individual acknowledges the support of Michael H. Hofmann chapters and provided valuable criticism that helped (Bonn, Germany) for providing the facilities and us to improve the contents. These are, in alphabetical latitude for pursuing this and other projects. ix
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