Sea SnakesNew South Wales University Press, 1987 - 85 sivua Sixty percent of the world's sea snakes are in Australian territorial waters - here's where they are, what they eat and who eats them, how they dive, breathe, reproduce, and function in their varying habitats. |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 11
Sivu 54
... muscle damage , and haemotoxins that affect the blood . The three major kinds of toxins are not mutually exclusive ... muscle is called the neuromuscular junction and it is there that snake neurotoxins operate . For a muscle to contract ...
... muscle damage , and haemotoxins that affect the blood . The three major kinds of toxins are not mutually exclusive ... muscle is called the neuromuscular junction and it is there that snake neurotoxins operate . For a muscle to contract ...
Sivu 55
... muscle where it causes muscle contraction . If the transmission of acetylcholine is blocked , the muscle is effectively paralysed . Snake toxins do that , but in two different ways depending on the particular ones involved . All ...
... muscle where it causes muscle contraction . If the transmission of acetylcholine is blocked , the muscle is effectively paralysed . Snake toxins do that , but in two different ways depending on the particular ones involved . All ...
Sivu 70
... muscles . When the muscle fibres break down , the myoglobin that is released appears in the urine and if in sufficient quantities may stain it a mahogany colour . Damaged muscles also release the enzyme creatine kinase and marked ...
... muscles . When the muscle fibres break down , the myoglobin that is released appears in the urine and if in sufficient quantities may stain it a mahogany colour . Damaged muscles also release the enzyme creatine kinase and marked ...
Sisältö
THE KINDS OF SEA SNAKES | 1 |
NATURAL HISTORY OF SEA SNAKES | 12 |
ADAPTATIONS OF SEA SNAKES | 31 |
Tekijänoikeudet | |
1 muita osia ei näytetty
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
Acrochordidae Acrochordus granulatus active Aipysurus eydouxii amount anaerobic respiration animals antivenom Astrotia stokesii Australian Biology body Bohr shift breathing captured carbon dioxide cent colubrids delivered diving syndrome eels eggs elapids Emydocephalus Enhydrina schistosa envenomation enzymes estuaries fang fish foraging freshwater function generalist granulated file snake habitat Haemotoxins heart rate Heatwole Heuvelmans homalopsines home ranges humans Hydrophis kidney land snakes Lapemis hardwickii Laticauda colubrina limbs mammals mangrove marine snakes membrane metabolic rate mice muscle Myotoxins natricines Nerodia neurotoxins niche nitrogen occur olive sea snake oxygen debt Pelamis platurus predators prey reefs release reproductive reptiles respiratory saccular lung salt glands sea kraits sea serpents sea snake Aipysurus sea snake bite sea snake venom sea water skin snake Aipysurus laevis snake venoms specialists species of snake submergence surface swallowing swimming symptoms teeth terrestrial tissue toxicity toxins true sea snakes venom apparatus venom gland venomous sea snakes vertebrates