- Docente: Albamaria Parmeggiani
- Credits: 3
- SSD: VET/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Aquaculture and Fish Production Hygiene (cod. 8834)
Course contents
Physiology of cell omeostasis. Functional adaptations to aquatic life. Immersion reflexes. Physiology of the locomotory apparatus, the circulatory apparatus, the respiratory system, the digestive system, the urinary apparatus, the male and female genital apparatus and the endocrine system. Metabolic physiology and stress endocrinology; thermoregulation
Readings/Bibliography
MARINE MAMMAL PHYSIOLOGY
Requisites for Ocean Living
Edited by Michael A. Castellini, Jo-Ann Mellish
CRC Press 2016
Fisiologia degli animali marini. Alessandro Poli, Elena Fabbri. EdiSES s.r.l, Napoli 2012
Marine Mammals Evolutionary Biology. A. Berta, J.L. Sumich. Accademic Press, 2006 (available at Ercolani library)
Teaching methods
Ex-catedra lectures
Practical lessons in the laboratory
Assessment methods
The final evaluation consists in an ORAL exam concerning topics discussed during the course or available in the notes or the texts suggested.
The final mark of the integrated course will derive from the mean of the notes of each single module.
Teaching tools
visit at aquatic park
Office hours
See the website of Albamaria Parmeggiani