title: Comparative physiology and biochemistry: challenges for the future.
abstract: 1. Comparative physiology is distinguished from other types of physiology by treating the diversity of solutions of functional problems and by using kind of animal as a functional variable. 2. The strength of comparative physiology os its capacity to give some solutions to problems in basic biology. 3. Specific examples of subject areas to which comparative physiology contributes are: (a) mechanisms underlying evolution; (b) the nature of speciation; (c) comparative cognitive science, neural models for behavior; and (d) applications of molecular techniques to physiology of whole animals. 4. Applications continue in ecology, medicine and agriculture. 5. The breadth of the comparative approach to physiology has important philosophical implications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61801.
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Prosser
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D001671:Biochemistry / Q000639:trends; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001695:Biology / Q000379:methods; D004463:Ecology; D008954:Models, Biological; D008967:Molecular Biology; D010684:Philosophy; D010828:Physiology, Comparative / Q000639:trends; D013045:Species Specificity