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Contributors; Preface; Part I. Water Transport and Uptake; Section 1. Mechanisms of Epithelial Fluid Transport: 1. Intracellular gradients in electrical potential and ion activity in absorptive epithelia T. Zeuthen; 2. Fluid transport by corneal endothelium Jorge Fischbard; 3. Fluid transport across Nectrus gallbladder epithelium A. E. Hill; 4. Observations on the action of ureal and other substances in opening the paracellular pathway in amphibian skins E. González, T. Kirchausen, H. Linares and G. Whittembury; Section 2. Uptake of Water Vapour by Arthopods: 5. Absorption of water vapour by Thermobia domestica and other insects J. Noble-Nesbitt; 6. Water vapour uptake by Tenebrio: a new approach to studying the phenomenon John Machin; 7. Uptake of water vapour by mites and mechanisms utilized by the Acareidei G. W. Wharton; 8. Uptake of water vapour from the air: process, site and mechanism in ticks Dieter Rudolph and Willi Knülle; 9. The site of water vapour absorption in Arenivaga investigata M. J. O’Donnell; Part II. Osmotic and Ionic Regulation in Unbalanced Environments; Section 1. Non-Vertebrates: 10. Some strategies of osmoregulation and ion transport in microorganisms D. J. Ellar; 11. Mechanisms of ionic and osmotic regulation in saline-water mosquito larvae John E. Phillips, T. J. Bradley and S. H. P. Madrell; 12. Inhibition of magnesium secretion in the prawn Palaemon serratus by ethacrynic acid and by ligature of the eyestalks S. E. Franklin, B. Teinsongrusmee and A. P. M. Lockwood; Section 2. Vertebrates: 13. Electrolyte transport across the bird coprodeum: role in osmoregulation Erik Skadhauge; 14. Salt glands in marine birds: what triggers secretion and what makes them grow M. Peaker; 15. Aspects of adaptation of fish to high external alkalinity: comparison of Tilapia grahami and T. mossambica J. Maetz and G. De Renzis; 16. Osmoregulation in Tilapia grahami: a fish in extreme alkalinity G. M. O Maloiy, G. Likkeboe, K. Johansen and O. S. Bamford; 17. The internal environment of marine fish Ragnar Fänge; 18. Control of catecholamine release from chromaffin tissue in teleost fish T. Abrahamsson and S. Nilsson; Part III. Fluid Mechanisms in Biology: 19. Fluid propulsion by cilia and flagella M. A. Sleigh; 20. Fluid skeletons in aquatic and terrestrial animals H. D. Jones; 21. The fluid mechanics of circulatory systems T. J. Pedley; 22. Convective flows in mammalian lungs R. C. Schroter; 23. The aerodynamics of normal hovering flight: three approaches C. P. Ellington; Index.

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