Contemporary conservation science benefits from the perspectives of a variety of different disciplines, including a recent synergy with physiology, an interface known as 'conservation physiology'. To evaluate the degree of interaction between conservation and animal/plant physiology, we conducted three bibliometric analyses. We first pursued the use of the term 'conservation physiology' since i...

Department of Animal Biology, P.O.Box 67 Dschang, University of Dschang, Cameroon Institut of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Technical University of Munich, Biedersteiner strasser 29, 80802 munich, Germany Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, P.O.Box 24157 Douala, University of Douala, Cameroon Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, P.O.Box 812 Yaounde, University of Yaounde I, Came...

Journal of Animal Science and Technology (JAST) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing original research, review articles notes in all fields animal science. Topics covered by the include: genetics breeding, physiology, nutrition monogastric animals, ruminants, products (milk, meat, eggs their by-products) processing, grasslands roughages, livestock environment, biotechnology, behav...

Animal Physiology by Knut SchmidtNielsen has been a classic in its field since its first publication in 1975. During my undergraduate years, I remember using an older edition as a supplement to an introductory biology course. I look back on the Schmidt-Nielsen text as a source of clear exposition for principles that govern life. Like the past edition, the fifth edition, is also an excellent tex...

Among the membrane compartments of a cell, vesicles known as "caveolae" have long defied functional characterization. However, since the identification of a family of proteins termed "caveolins", that form and reside in caveolae, a better understanding has emerged. It is now clear that caveolae do not merely play a singular role in the cell, but are pleiotropic in nature-serving to modulate man...

607 the past year or so. Althotuglh practical gene-transfer tlherapy may be only a distant reality, those interested in the past and current state of the art slhouild findl this book botlh interesting and(I informative. It contains some 35 papers (andl re-late(d discussionis) that were presentecl at a NATO-sponsored symposium helcl in Mol, Belgium, dluring September, 1970. As expected for a sym...