001478918 000__ 05077nam\a22008295i\4500 001478918 001__ 1478918 001478918 003__ DE-B1597 001478918 005__ 20231026035003.0 001478918 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478918 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478918 008__ 230918t20112013mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478918 020__ $$a9780674058903 001478918 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674058903$$2doi 001478918 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)209852 001478918 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478918 0410_ $$aeng 001478918 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478918 050_4 $$aQL666.C5$$bJ28 2011 001478918 072_7 $$aNAT028000$$2bisacsh 001478918 1001_ $$aJackson, Donald C., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001478918 24510 $$aLife in a Shell :$$bA Physiologist's View of a Turtle /$$cDonald C. Jackson. 001478918 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2011] 001478918 264_4 $$c©2013 001478918 300__ $$a1 online resource (192 p.) :$$b11 halftones, 12 line illustrations 001478918 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478918 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478918 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478918 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478918 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$t1. The Turtle's Shell -- $$t2. Buoyancy -- $$t3. The Breathing Turtle -- $$t4. Tortuguero -- $$t5. Overwintering without Breathing -- $$t6. Living without Oxygen -- $$t7. The Heart of a Turtle -- $$t8. Life in the Slow Lane -- $$tEpilogue -- $$tReferences -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex 001478918 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478918 520__ $$aTrundling along in essentially the same form for some 220 million years, turtles have seen dinosaurs come and go, mammals emerge, and humankind expand its dominion. Is it any wonder the persistent reptile bested the hare? In this engaging book physiologist Donald Jackson shares a lifetime of observation of this curious creature, allowing us a look under the shell of an animal at once so familiar and so strange. Here we discover how the turtle's proverbial slowness helps it survive a long, cold winter under ice. How the shell not only serves as a protective home but also influences such essential functions as buoyancy control, breathing, and surviving remarkably long periods without oxygen, and how many other physiological features help define this unique animal. Jackson offers insight into what exactly it's like to live inside a shell-to carry the heavy carapace on land and in water, to breathe without an expandable ribcage, to have sex with all that body armor intervening. Along the way we also learn something about the process of scientific discovery-how the answer to one question leads to new questions, how a chance observation can change the direction of study, and above all how new research always builds on the previous work of others. A clear and informative exposition of physiological concepts using the turtle as a model organism, the book is as interesting for what it tells us about scientific investigation as it is for its deep and detailed understanding of how the enduring turtle "works." 001478918 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478918 546__ $$aIn English. 001478918 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) 001478918 650_0 $$aPhysiology, Comparative. 001478918 650_0 $$aPhysiology. 001478918 650_0 $$aTurtles$$xPhysiology. 001478918 650_4 $$v. 001478918 650_4 $$aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (see also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology). 001478918 650_4 $$aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology . 001478918 650_4 $$aSCIENCE / Life Sciences / Marine Biology. 001478918 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001478918 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)$$z9783110756067 001478918 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001478918 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780674050341 001478918 852__ $$bebk 001478918 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674058903$$zOnline Access 001478918 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1478918$$pGLOBAL_SET 001478918 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001478918 912__ $$a978-3-11-075606-7 HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)$$b2013 001478918 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001478918 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001478918 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001478918 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001478918 912__ $$aEBA_ESTMALL 001478918 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001478918 912__ $$aEBA_STMALL 001478918 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001478918 912__ $$aPDA12STME 001478918 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001478918 912__ $$aPDA18STMEE 001478918 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001478918 980__ $$aBIB 001478918 980__ $$aEBOOK 001478918 982__ $$aEbook 001478918 983__ $$aOnline