Symposium: "Current Perspectives on the Evolution, Ecology, and Comparative Physiology of Bimodal Breathing" to be held at the ASZ, December 27-30, 1991, in Atlanta, Georgia.

请求支助将于1991年12月27日至30日在佐治亚州亚特兰大举行的美国动物学家协会年会上举行的题为“双峰呼吸的进化、生态学和比较生理学的当前观点”的全天专题讨论会(上午和下午的会议)。研讨会的目的是召集一个由成熟的和年轻的研究人员组成的国际小组，以1)突出在理解双峰呼吸生物体方面取得的进展，双峰呼吸生物体既是动物入侵陆地栖息地的进化过程中现存的环节，也是阐明适应的基本生理和生化机制的独特模式系统，2)确定未来研究的重要领域，以及3)在未来的研究工作中促进跨学科和国际合作。该计划将涵盖的主题是跨学科的设计：包括影响双峰呼吸生物体的物理、进化、生态、形态、发育、生理和生化因素。演讲者代表了有关双峰呼吸的各个研究领域中既有成熟的研究人员，也有新兴的研究人员的国际集合。在专题介绍中将介绍广泛的分类学类别，将一系列不同的生物聚集在一个单一主题下，并强调生物多样性在这一研究领域的重要性和重要性。研讨会的会议记录将发表在《美国动物学家》杂志上，它将首次也是唯一一次将双峰呼吸作为一个复杂的、综合的过程来对待。

Support is requested for a full day symposium (morning and afternoon sessions on the same day) entitled "Current perspectives on the evolution, ecology, and comparative physiology of bimodal breathing" to be held at the annual meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, December 27-30, 1991, in Atlanta, Georgia. The purpose of the symposium is to bring together an international group of both established and young investigators in order to 1) highlight the advances made in understanding bimodally breathing organisms both as the extant link in the evolutionary process by which animals invaded the terrestrial habitat and as unique model systems for elucidating basic physiological and biochemical mechanisms of adaptation, 2) define the important areas for future research, and 3) to promote interdisciplinary and international collaboration in future research efforts. The topics to be covered in the program are interdisciplinary by design: including physical, evolutionary, ecological, morphological, developmental, physiological, and biochemical factors that affect bimodally breathing organisms. The speakers represent an international assemblage of both established and emerging investigators within the various fields of study concerning bimodal breathing. A wide range of taxonomic groups will be featured in the presentations, bringing together an array of different organisms under a single theme and underscoring the prevelance and importance of biodiversity in this field of study. Proceedings of the symposium will be published in the American Zoologist, and it will comprise the first and only reference to treat bimodal breathing as a complex, integrated process.//