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Unit 1: Ionoregulatory Physiology

Duarte, R. M., Braz-Mota, S., de Nazaré Paula Silva, M. de Figueiredo, G., Pauly, E., Costa, J. H. A., da Mota Silva, J., & Val, A. L. (2026). Ionoregulatory and hematological parameters of Triportheus albus populations living in natural white- and blackwaters of the Amazon. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 196, 67–79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00360-025-01651-y
Morris, C., Val, A. L., Brauner, C. J., & Wood, C. M. (2021). The physiology of fish in acidic waters rich in dissolved organic carbon, with specific reference to the Amazon basin: Ionoregulation, acid-base regulation, ammonia excretion, and metal toxicity. The Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A, 335(9–10), 843–863. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2468

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Sadauskas-Henrique, H., de Souza-Bastos, L. R., Smith, D. S., Val, A. L., & Wood, C. M. (2025). Dissolved organic carbon from "white" waters in Amazon basin (Brazil) and the osmoregulatory responses of tambaqui (Colossoma magropomum) in neutral and acidic environments. Journal of Fish Biology, 108(3), 894–905. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.16054

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Unit 2: Excretory Physiology

Ip, Y. K., & Chew, S. F. (2010). Ammonia production, excretion, toxicity, and defense in fish: A review. Frontiers in Physiology, 1. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2010.00134
Randall, D. J., Wood, C. M., Perry, S. F., Bergman, H., Maloiy, G. M. O., Mommsen, T. P., & Wright, P. A. (1989). Urea excretion as a strategy for survival in a fish living in a very alkaline environment. Nature, 337, 165–166. https://doi.org/10.1038/337165a0

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Wood, C. M., Walsh, P. J., Chew, S. F., & Ip, Y. K. (2005). Greatly elevated urea excretion after air exposure appears to be carrier mediated in the slender lungfish (Protopterus dolloi). Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology, 78(6). https://doi.org/10.1086/432919

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Unit 3: Thermal Physiology I

Bergouignan, A., Noone, J., Brun, C., Cussonneau, L., Geffroy, A., Coudy-Gandilhon, C., Chery, I., Evans, A. L., Arnemo, J. M., Kindberg, J., Gauquelin-Koch, G., O'Gorman, D., Lefair, E., & Bertile, F. (2026). The preservation of muscle mitochondrial machinery during hypometabolic hibernation in Scandinavian brown bears (Ursus arctos). Acta Physiologica, 242(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/apha.70177
Kurtz, C. C., Otis, J. P., Regan, M. D., & Carey, H. V. (2021). How the gut and liver hibernate. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2020.110875

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Mohr, S. M., Pra, R. D., Platt, M. P., Feketa, V. V., Shanabrough, M., Varela, L., Kristant, A., Cao, H., Merriman, D. K., Horvath, T. L., Bagriantsev, S. M., & Gracheva, E. O. (2024). Nature Communications, 25. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49996-2

Unit 4: Thermal Physiology II

Costanzo, J. P. (2018). Overwintering adaptations and extreme freeze tolerance in a subarctic population of the wood frog, Rana sylvatica. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 189, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00360-018-1189-7

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Pichaud, N., Menail, H. A., Ojukwu, K. C., Morin, P., & Toxopeus, J. (2025). Fall-like acclimation alters mitochondrial function and substrate use in freeze-tolerant crickets. Journal of Thermal Biology, 132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2025.104253

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Štětina, T., Kučera, L., Moos, M., Rozsypal, J., & Koštál, V. (2025). Pitfalls in insect cryoprotectant functional studies: A case study of myo-inositol in Drosopila lummei. Journal of Insect Physiology, 165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2025.104864

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Unit 5: Respiratory Physiology

Galli, G. L. J., Lau, G. Y., & Richards, J. G. (2013). Beating oxygen: Chronic anoxia exposure reduces mitochondrial F1FO-ATPase activity in turtle (Trachemys scripta) heart. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 216(17). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.087155
Haverinen, J., Badr, A., Eskelinen, M., & Voranen, M. (2024). Three steps down: Metabolic depression in winter-acclimatized crucian carp (Carassius carassius L.). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2023.111537
Nilsson, G. E., & Lutz, P. L. (2004). Anoxia tolerant brains. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 24(5). https://doi.org/10.1097/00004647-200405000-00001

Unit 6: Digestive Physiology I

Alexander, G. J., & Wang, T. (2023). Snake foraging ecology and digestive physiology: Integrative biology and evolving paradigms. In D. Penning (Ed.) Snakes: Morphology, function, and ecology. Nova Science Publishers. https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/snake-foraging-ecology-and-digestive-physiology-integrative-biolo/

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Rindom, E., Bundgaard Last, K., Svane, A., Fammé, A. Henriksen, P. G., Farup, J., Jessen, N., de Paoli, F. V., & Wang, T. (2025). Rapid stimulation of protein synthesis in digesting snakes: Unveiling a novel gut-pancreas-muscle axis. Acta Physiologica, 241(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/apha.70006
Tan, Y., Peter, A. K., Ozeroff, C. D., & Leinwand, L. A. (2025). Python cardiomyocytes store lipids to buffer against hyperlipidemia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1551(1), 159–166. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15402

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Unit 7: Digestive Physiology II

Beyenbach, K. W., & Piermarini, P. M. (2010). Transcellular and paracellular pathways of transepithelial fluid secretion in Maalpighian (renal) tubules of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. Acta Physiological, 202(3), 687–407. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02195.x

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Freitas, M. B., Queiroz, J. F., Dias Gomes, C. I., Collares-Buzato, C. B., Barbosa, H. C., Boschero, A. C., Gonçalves, C. A., & Pinherio, E. C. (2013). Reduced insulin secretion and glucose intolerance are involved in the fasting susceptibility of common vampire bats. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 183, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.11.023
Graça-Souza, A. V., Maya-Monteiro, C., Paiva-Silva, G. O., Braz, G. R. C., Paes, M. C., Sorgine, M. H. F., Oliveira, M. G., & Oliveria. P. L. (2006). Adaptations against heme toxicity in blood-feeding arthropods. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 36(4), 322–335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2006.01.009

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Lazzari, C. R., Fauquet, A., Lahondère, C., Araújo, R. N., & Pereira, M. H., (2021). Soft ticks perform evaporative cooling during blood-feeding. Journal of Insect Physiology, 130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2021.104197

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Unit 8: Sensory Ecophysiology I

Clayson, M. S., Devereaux, M. E. M., & Pamenter, M. E. (2019). Neurokinin-1 receptor activation is sufficient to restore the hypercapnic ventilatory response in the Substance P-deficient naked mole-rat. American Joural of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 318(4). https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.00251.2019
Poulson, S. J., Aldarraji, A., Arain, I. I., Dziekonski, N., Motlana, K., Riley, R., Holmes, M. M., & Martin, L. J. (2020). Naked mole-rats lack cold sensitivity before and after nerve injury. Molecular Pain, 16. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744806920955103
St. John Smith, E., Park, T. J., & Lewin, G. R. (2020). Independent evolution of pain insensitivity in African mole-rats: Origins and mechanisms. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 206, 313–325. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-020-01414-w

Unit 9: Sensory Ecophysiology II

Catania, K. C. (2011). The sense of touch in the star-nosed mole: From mechanoreceptors to the brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366(1581), 3016–3025. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0128

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Marzhan, H., Hoy, N., Buchok, M., Catania, K. C., & Hawkes, R. (2015). Compartmentation of the cerebeller cortex: Adaptation to lifestyle in the star-nosed mole Condylura cristata. The Cerebellum, 14(2), 106–118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12311-014-0618-8

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Sawyer, E. K., Leitch, D. B., & Catania, K. C. (2014). Organization of the spinal trigeminal nucleus in star-nosed moles. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 552(14), 3335–3350. https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.23605

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Unit 10: Space Ecophysiology

Robin, A., Navasiolava, N., Bergouignan, A., Laurens, C., Frassin, L., Larrouy, D., de Glisezinski, I., Harant-Farrugia, I., Simon, C., Pavy-Le Traon, A., Kermorgant, M., Vico, L., Gernandez, P., Linossier, M.-T., Chopard, A., Py, G., Tipton, M., Tessier, A., Moal, V., ... & Custaud., M.-A. (2026). Sex-specific cardiometabolic responses during microgravity simulation in European Space Agency VIVALDI dry immersion. Communications Medicine, 6, 301. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-026-01540-7
Van Akin, M. P., Lantz, O. M., Fellows, A. M., Toutain-Kidd, C., Zegans, M., Buckley, J. C., & Anderson, A. P. (2022). Acute effects of postural changes and lower body positive and negative pressure on the eye. Frontiers in Physiology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.933450
Winkler, L. H. (2023). Human physiological limitations to long-term spaceflight and living in space. Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, 94(6), 444–456. https://doi.org/10.3357/AMHP.6190.2023

Unit 11: Diving Physiology

Costa, D. P., & Favilla, A. B. (2023). Field physiology in the aquatic realm: Ecological energetics and diving behavior provide context for elucidating patterns and deviations. Journal of Experimental Biology, 226(20). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245832
Párraga, D. G., Moore, M., & Fahlman, A. (2018). Pulmonary ventilation–perfusion mismatch: A novel hypothesis for how diving vertebrates may avoid the bends. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 285(1877). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0482
Signore, A. V., Tift, M. S., Hoffman, F. G., Schmitt, T. L., Moriyama, H., & Storz, J. (2021). Evolved increases in hemoglobin-oxygen affinity and the Bohr effect coincided with the aquatic specialization of penguins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(13), e2023936118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023936118

Unit 12: Dinosaur Physiology

Clarke, A. (2013). Dinosaur energetics: Setting the bounds on feasible physiologies and ecologies. The American Naturalist, 182(3). https://doi.org/10.1086/671259

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Perry, S. F., Christian, A., Breuer, T., Pajor, N., & Cood, J. R. (2009). Implications of an avian-style respiratory system for gigantism in sauropod dinosaurs. The Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A, 311A(8), 600–610. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.517

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Seymour, R. S. (2016). Cardiovascular physiology of dinosaurs. Physiology, 31(6). https://doi.org/10.1152/physiol.00016.2016

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