1. The O2 and CO2 Transport System in Teleosts and the Specialized
Mechanisms That Enhance Hb–O2 Unloading to Tissues
Till S. Harter and Colin J. Brauner
2. Cardiovascular Development in Embryonic and Larval Fishes
Warren Burggren, Benjamin Dubansky, and Naim M. Bautista
3. Cardiac Preconditioning, Remodeling, and Regeneration
Todd E. Gillis and Elizabeth F. Johnston
4. Temperature and the Cardiovascular System
Erika J. Eliason and Katja Anttila
5. Cardiovascular Responses to Limiting Oxygen Levels
Jonathan A.W. Stecyk
6. Environmental Pollution and the Fish Heart
John P. Incardona and Nathaniel L. Scholz
7. Cardiovascular Effects of Disease: Parasites and Pathogens
Mark D. Powell and Muhammad N. Yousaf
This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the latest developments in research into the cardiovascular system in fish
Dr. A. Kurt Gamperl is a comparative physiologist whose main
research interest is to understand how environmental and
physiological variables interact to affect fish biology. Central to
this research are the role that blood oxygen transport, cardiac
function, stress and humoral and/or biochemical factors play in
mediating fish "performance" under varied environmental conditions.
Dr. Todd Gillis was educated in Canada at the University of Guelph
(BSc, MSc) and Simon Fraser University (PhD). His PhD thesis
focused on the mechanisms that enable cardiac function in rainbow
trout at their comparatively low physiological temperature. As a
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Washington, he studied
the role of the thin filament in controlling cardiac function. Dr
Gillis’ research program, funded by NSERC, and Fisheries and Oceans
Canada is focused on the vertebrate heart and the mechanisms that
regulate its function, and capacity to respond to environmental and
pathological stressors including temperature change, hypoxia,
injury, and oil exposure. This work utilizes an integrative
approach that is linking changes in gene and protein expression to
cellular and tissue function to whole animal responses. Dr. Gillis
is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Physiology B
and on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Thermal Biology,
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A, and Current Research in
Physiology.
Dr. Tony Farrell is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of
Zoology & Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of
British Columbia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His
research had provided an understanding of fish cardiorespiratory
systems and has applied this knowledge to salmon migratory passage,
fish stress handling and their recovery, sustainable aquaculture
and aquatic toxicology. He has over 490 research publications in
peer-reviewed scientific journals and an h-factor of 92. He has
co-edited of 30 volumes of the Fish Physiology series, as well as
an award-winning Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology. As part of his
application of physiology to aquaculture, he has studied the
sub-lethal impacts of sea lice and piscine orthoreovirus on the
physiology of juvenile salmon. Dr. Farrell has received multiple
awards, including the Fry Medal, which is the highest honour to a
scientist from the Canadian Society of Zoologists, the Beverton
Medal, which is the highest honour to a scientist from the
Fisheries Society of the British Isles, the Award of Excellence,
which is the highest honour of the American Fisheries Society and
the Murray A. Newman Awards both for Research and for Conservation
from the Vancouver Marine Sciences Centre. He is a former President
of the Society of Experimental Biologists and a former
Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Fish Biology. He served as a
member of the Minister’s Aquaculture Advisory Committee on Finfish
Aquaculture for British Columbia and was a member of the Federal
Independent Expert Panel on Aquaculture Science. Dr. Colin Brauner
was educated in Canada at the University of British Columbia (Ph
D), followed by a Post-doctoral fellowship at Aarhus University and
the University of Southern Denmark, and was a Research Associate at
McMaster University. He is a Professor of Zoology, UBC and Director
of the UBC Aquatics Facility. He has been a Co-Editor of the Fish
Physiology series since 2006. His research investigates
environmental adaptations (both mechanistic and evolutionary) in
relation to gas-exchange, acid-base balance and ion regulation in
fish, integrating responses from the molecular, cellular and
organismal level. The ultimate goal is to understand how
evolutionary pressures have shaped physiological systems among
vertebrates and to determine the degree to which physiological
systems can adapt/acclimate to natural and anthropogenic
environmental changes. This information is crucial for basic
biology and understanding the diversity of biological systems, but
much of his research conducted to date can also be applied to
issues of aquaculture, toxicology and water quality criteria
development, as well as fisheries management. His achievements have
been recognized by the Society for Experimental Biology, UK
(President’s medal) and the Canadian Conference for Fisheries
Research (J.C. Stevenson Memorial Lecturer) and the Vancouver
Marine Sciences Centre (Murray A. Newman Award for Aquatic
Research). He is a former President of the Canadian Society of
Zoologists.
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