Biochemical adaptation

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Shoaib, M., Schindler, C.W., Goldberg, S.R., Pauly, J.R. Behavioural and biochemical adaptations to nicotine in rats influence of MK801, an NMDA receptor antagonist. Psychopharmacology (Berlin). 134 121, 1997. 

Biochemical Adaptation Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution, Oxford Univ. Press, New York... 

Hochachka, P. W., and G. N. Somera, Biochemical Adaptation. Princeton Princeton University Press, 1984. An excellent and extensive discussion of how biochemical processes, including many discussed in this book, are adapted by various types of organisms in fitting themselves for survival under specific and often difficult conditions. 

Bryant, C. and Behm, C. (1989) Biochemical Adaptations in Parasites. Chapman Hall, London. 

Hochachka, P.W. and Somero, G.N. (1973). Strategies of Biochemical Adaptation . W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 398pp. 

Kreps, E.M. (1977). Biochemical adaptations of marine animals (In Russian). Biologiya Morya 1977 (5), 6-15. 

In spite of the vertebrate intestine being a biologically hostile environment for parasites, cestodes have been very successful in developing a wide range of morphological, physiological and biochemical adaptations which enable them to become established and to reproduce there. 

Hochachka, P. W., and Somero, G. N. (1984). Biochemical Adaptation. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ. 

What Do We Study When We Examine Biochemical Adaptation What Is a "Biochemical Trait" ... 

It seems logical to begin our foundation-building effort with a most basic question What do we study when we examine biochemical adaptations What may seem like the obvious answer... 

The mandatory dissection process involved in studying biochemical traits creates two primary types of problem. One problem is a general one that obtains whether or not the biochemist is interested in examining the adaptive value of a biochemical trait. This common problem relates to the difficulties that arise when data from studies of simplified systems are used to extrapolate back to the much more complex reality of the living organism in its natural habitat. Let us try to delineate this problem in some detail, so we can better appreciate the challenges we face in studying biochemical adaptation. 

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