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1. A Conceptual Foundation for Understanding Biochemical
Adaptation
2. Oxygen and Metabolism
3. Temperature
4. Water and Solutes: Evolution and Regulation of Biological
Solutions
5. Adaptation in the Anthropocene
Literature Cited
Illustration Credits
Index
George N. Somero is David and Lucile Packard Emeritus Professor of
Marine Sciences at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford
University. After receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Biology from
Carleton College, he completed his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at
Stanford (with Dr. Arthur Giese), and postdoctoral studies with Dr.
Peter Hochachka at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Somero
coauthored three books on biochemical adaptation with Dr.
Hochachka, and coedited (with Charles B. Osmond and Carla L. Bolis)
Water and Life, a volume on water-solute relationships. His major
research interests focus on the effects of abiotic environmental
factors (especially
temperature, salinity, oxygen availability, and hydrostatic
pressure) on biochemical systems.
Brent L. Lockwood is Assistant Professor of Biology at the
University of Vermont. He received Bachelor's Degrees in Biology
and Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego and
completed his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in the lab of Dr. George
Somero at Stanford University. Dr. Lockwood was an NIH postdoctoral
fellow in the lab of Dr. Kristi Montooth at Indiana University. His
lab works at the interface of physiology and evolutionary biology
to elucidate the
mechanisms that constrain or facilitate adaptation to environmental
change.
Lars Tomanek is Associate Professor of Department of Biological
Sciences at California Polytechnic State University. He received
his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Biology from the University
of Konstanz (Germany). He completed his Ph.D. with Dr. George
Somero at Oregon State University, and he did postdoctoral work
with Dr. Somero at Stanford University and Dr. Dietmar Kültz at the
University of California, Davis. Working mainly with intertidal
invertebrates, he and
his students integrate across levels of biological organization,
from the subcellular to the whole-organism, to study physiological
responses to temperature, osmotic, pH, hypoxic, heavy metal, and
endocrine stressors.
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