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Fall 2011 Course Outline1 EEOB 410 Animal Form and Function Jos. B. Williams, Ph.D. 420 Aronoff Lab 292-8088 Text: Animal Physiology Hill, Wyse, Anderson, second edition Teaching Assistants: Justin Peyton, Andrew Sudimack, Liz Calhoon Topic Introduction to Animal Physiology What is Animal Physiology Thinking beyond boundaries Adaptation, Acclimatization, Acclimation Phenotypic plasticity of physiological characters Water, Ions, and Osmoregulation Ionization of water pH Weak acids, bases, and buffers in Physiology Henderson-Hasselbach Equation Osmoregulation and excretion Desert Organisms and Adaptations for Water Balance Arabian Oryx Desert Birds Cutaneous water loss in desert birds Lipids of the stratum corneum and water conservation in desert birds Cellular Metabolism Oxidation-Reduction Generation of ATP Glycolysis Kreb’s cycle Oxidative Phosphorylation Whole Organism Energetics Standard metabolism of ectotherms Basal metabolism of endotherms Scaling of metabolism Respiratory Physiology Avian lung and its respiratory cycle Mammalian lung and its respiratory cycle Pulmonary volumes and capacities Oxygen and carbon dioxide transport Regulation of acid base balance revisited Respiration at high altitude Muscle Physiology Characteristics of Muscle Macroanatomy of muscle Microanatomy of muscle Sliding filament theory of muscle contraction Readings Bennett, A. 1997. Adaptation and the evolution of physiological characters. Handbook of Physiology. HWA 3-28 HWA 664-679 HWA 715-719; 724-738 HWA 757-762 Williams and Tieleman. 2005. Bioscience Ostrowski et al. 2003. J. Expt. Biol. HWA 167-177 HWA 145-165 HWA 533-545 HWA 561-572 HWA 489-512
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