Animal Osmoregulation

Timothy J. Bradley is a Comparative Physiologist by training and a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. His areas of research interest are mechanisms of salt and water balance in animals, animal energetics, and the evolution of physiological function. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• Introduction ; 1. The Properties of Water ; 2. Osmosis ; 3. The Interaction of Water with Organic Solutes ; 4. The Need for, and often Conflicting Issues of, Osmoregulation and Volume Regulation ; 5. Osmoconformers ; 6. Hyporegulators ; 7. Hyper-regulators: Life in Fresh Water ; 8. Terrestrial Animals ; 9. Membranes as Sites of Energy Transduction ; 10. Transport of Ions and Water in Epithelia: Molecular Insights ; 11. Volume and Osmotic Regulation

Well written, informative, easy to understand, and provides a solid overview on this topic, with an emphasis on animal diversity and evolutionary histories.