Advances in Compararative and Environmental Physiology helps biologists, physiologists, and biochemists keep track of the extensive literature in the field. Cellular volume and osmolality in animals is a well studied topic and this specific volume in the series provides the reader with a thorough grounding in this area of physiology.

Contributions by: T. Arawaka, M.B. Burg, H.F. Cserr, J.J. Grantham, S. Grinstein, E.K. Hoffmann, H.K. Kimelberg, H.-A. Kolb, R.O. Law, J.W. Lohr, A.D.C. Macknight, M.J. Mason, C.S: Patlak, D. Rotin, S.N. Timasheff