**Meet the editor**

Dr Kevin B. Clark earned his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University in 1999. He has held research appointments at Oregon State University, Southern Illinois University, and the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Dr Clark has served as referee and associate editor for professional journals, editor of collected volumes, and long-time consultant and collaborator to

the Veterans Affairs GLAHS. His award-winning research and patented medical inventions involving peripheral neuromodulation gained recognition from Dr James McGaugh. Later primate studies conducted with Dr Nikos Logothetis focused on Dr Clark's interests in cognition across animal phylogeny. His broader interests in evolution of intelligence began during graduate school while working with Dr Sidney Fox on protocell models of learning and memory and continue today with investigations into microbial sociality.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Reviews of Bioenergetics Applied to Life Span and Disease 1** 

Chapter 2 **Mitochondrial Calcium Signalling:** 

Chapter 3 **Bioenergetics Theory of Aging 63**  Alexander G. Trubitsyn

Chapter 4 **Sirtuin-Dependent Metabolic Control** 

Chapter 6 **Role of Inorganic Polyphosphate** 

**Part 2 Reviews of Bioenergetics Applied** 

**and Its Role in the Aging Process 95** 

Chapter 5 **Energy Metabolism in Children and Adolescents 121**  Valentin Son'kin and Ritta Tambovtseva

**in the Energy Metabolism of Ticks 143** 

Eldo Campos, Arnoldo R. Façanha, Jorge Moraes and Carlos Logullo

**to Performance Optimization 157** 

Chapter 7 **Bioenergetics Applied to Swimming: An Ecological** 

**Method to Monitor and Prescribe Training 159**  Rodrigo Zacca and Flávio Antônio de Souza Castro

Chapter 1 **Antioxidant Action of Mobile Electron Carriers of the Respiratory Chain 3** 

> Juliana C. Araújo-Chaves, Felipe S. Pessoto, Mayara K. Kisaki and Vivian W. R. Moraes

Iseli L. Nantes, Tiago Rodrigues, César H. Yokomizo,

**Role in Oxidative Phosphorylation Diseases 29**  Oulès Bénédicte, Del Prete Dolores and Chami Mounia

Sara Santa-Cruz Calvo, Plácido Navas and Guillermo López-Lluch
