**Meet the editor**

Hakan Türker is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Department of Aquaculture, Fisheries and Wildlife Biology, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA and did postdoctoral research at Tropical Biosphere Research Center, Ryukyus University, Okina-

wa, Japan. His current research interests include (a) integrated multitrophic aquaculture (b) fish biology (c) aquatic toxicology. He has published 14 papers in reputed international journals.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 New Advances and Contributions to Fish Biology 1**

Toro-Ascuy, Ana María Sandino and Mónica Imarai

Chapter 2 **Cytokine Regulation of Teleost Inflammatory Responses 59**

Chapter 4 **Freshwater Fish as Sentinel Organisms: From the Molecular to**

Jacinto Elías Sedeño-Díaz and Eugenia López-López

Chapter 5 **The Potential Impacts of Global Climatic Changes and Dams on**

Carlos Edwar de Carvalho Freitas, Alexandre A. F. Rivas, Caroline Pereira Campos, Igor Sant'Ana, James Randall Kahn, Maria Angélica

Cláudia Turra Pimpão, Ênio Moura, Ana Carolina Fredianelli, Luciana G. Galeb, Rita Maria V. Mangrich Rocha and Francisco P.

Chapter 7 **Functional and Structural Differences in Atria Versus Ventricles**

Christine Genge, Leif Hove-Madsen and Glen F. Tibbits

Chapter 3 **Regulation of Teleost Macrophage and Neutrophil Cell**

Sebastián Reyes-Cerpa, Kevin Maisey, Felipe Reyes-López, Daniela

**Development by Growth Factors and Transcription Factors 97** Barbara A. Katzenback, Fumihiko Katakura and Miodrag Belosevic

Chapter 1 **Fish Cytokines and Immune Response 3**

Leon Grayfer and Miodrag Belosevic

**the Population Level, a Review 151**

**Amazonian Fish and Their Fisheries 175**

Chapter 6 **Evaluation of Toxicity in Silver Catfish 197**

Montanha

**in Teleost Hearts 221**

de Almeida Correa and Michel Fabiano Catarino
