Comparative Endocrinology Aubrey Gorbman, Walton W. Dickhoff, Steven R. Vigna, Nancy B. Clark & Charles L. Ralph Keenly sensitive to the needs and capabilities of today’s undergraduate, this textbook provides a broadly comparative approach to vertebrate endocrinology which is not confined to the study of mammals but compares and relates all vertebrate groups. The mechanism of hormonal action is considered as a general phenomenon and specifically with respect to each of the vertebrate hormones. The book’s initial gland-by-gland approach permits a rapid review of the entire endocrine system and of the linkages between environmental changes and hormonally regulated adaptive changes. Gradually, the book’s emphasis shifts from glands and their hormones to chemically modulated phenomena of increasing complexity. Thus, the relatively simpler process of integumentary pigment control and its regulation is discussed before calcium metabolism. Other multihormonally regulated phenomena like osmoregulation, and the highly complex subject of intermediary metabolism are discussed in stages throughout the work before being presented in their own right in later chapters. The book’s comparative approach gives way in Chapter 13 to the examination of endocrine-regulated reproduction in mammals, particularly in man. This departure is due primarily to the well-recognized difficulty of generalizing from one animal group to another in light of the highly adaptive quality of vertebrate reproduction. The book, at this point, limits the range of discussion on the comparative aspects of reproductive endocrinology by choosing to present the best understood species—the rat and man—as the principal models for study of the phenomenon. As an instructional tool, Comparative Endocrinology is unsurpassed in its clarity. The use of all technical terms is preceded or accompanied by explanations for those terms. The most lavishly illustrated endocrinology text available, the book contains numerous summary diagrams to permit students to organize complex interrelationships visually. Photographs and electron micrographs are drawn from the vast body of original literature to provide outstanding illustrations of morphological features.
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Comparative Endocrinology is, in many respects, the first truly modern textbook in the field. Its broad comparative approach to vertebrate endocrinology interdigitates well with introductory biology or zoology courses on the one hand, and with more advanced courses in physiology, comparative anatomy, embryology, ecology and behavior on the other. The book begins with a gland-by-gland approach designed to help the student who lacks an initial understanding of hormones and then gradually shifts to the phenomenological approach that better represents things as they really are. In addition, the profusion of illustrations in the text, including explanatory diagrams, is an important visual complement to an accessible format that makes even the more complex technical terms understandable. Finally, the book reflects the most recent advances in such areas as peptide hormonal chemistry, receptor physiology and hormonal distribution. All these elements demonstrate the co-authors’ awareness of the needs and problems of students as they enter this exciting field, an awareness gathered by many years of teaching experience on the college level.
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About the authors AUBREY GORBMAN is Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington in Seattle. A former President of the American Society of Zoologists and a member of several other leading scientific societies in the U.S. and Canada, he is also a member of the National Research Council Commission for International Union of Biological Sciences. For twenty years he has served as Editor-in-Chief for General and Comparative Endocrinology. A Visiting Professor and recent guest lecturer at universities in Japan and China, Dr. Gorbman is the co-author of A Textbook of General and Comparative Endocrinology, Laboratory Experiments in General and Comparative Endocrinology, and author of Laboratory Manual in Helminthology. He received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of California at Berkeley. WALTON W. DICKHOFF is Research Associate in the Department of Zoology at the University of Washington. A member of The Endocrine Society, the American Society of Zoologists, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Dickhoff earned his Ph.D. in physiology at the University of California at Berkeley. STEVEN R. VIGNA is Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Oregon. Dr. Vigna is a member of the American Society of Zoologists and the Society for the Protection of Old Fishes. He received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Washington. NANCY B. CLARK is Professor of Biology at the University of Connecticut where her research specialty is calcium regulation in lower vertebrates. A member of the Endocrine Society, the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research, and the American Physiological Society, she is currently chairman of the Comparative Endocrinology Division of the American Society of Zoologists and on the editorial board of General and Comparative Endocrinology. In 1976-77, she served as Program Director in regulatory biology for the National Science Foundation. Dr. Clark received her Ph.D. in biology from Columbia University. CHARLES L. RALPH is Professor of Zoology at Colorado State University. A member of a number of major scientific societies including the American Association of Anatomists, the American Society of Zoologists and the American Physiological Society, Dr. Ralph will be Chairman of the 1985 International Symposium on Comparative Endocrinology. He is also currently a member of the editorial board of General and Comparative Endocrinology.
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