This book discusses biochemical adaptation to environments from freezing polar oceans to boiling hot springs, and under hydrostatic pressures up to 1,000 times that at sea level.

Originally published in 1984.

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Pater W. Hochachka & George N. Somero

• FrontMatter,
• Contents,
• Figures,
• Tables,
• Preface,
• List of Abbreviations,
• Chapter One. Biochemical Adaptation: Basic Mechanisms and Strategies,
• Chapter Two. Design of Cellular Metabolism,
• Chapter Three. Adaptation of Enzymes to Metabolic Functions,
• Chapter Four. Exercise Adaptations,
• Chapter Five. Limiting Oxygen Availability,
• Chapter Six. Metabolic Adaptations to Diving,
• Chapter Seven. Off-Switches in Metabolism: From Anhydrobiosis to Hibernation,
• Chapter Eight. Mammalian Developmental Adaptations,
• Chapter Nine. Respiratory Proteins,
• Chapter Ten. Water-Solute Adaptations: The Evolution and Regulation of Biological Solutions,
• Chapter Eleven. Temperature Adaptation,
• Chapter Twelve. Adaptations to the Deep Sea,
• References,
• Index,