Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Pulmonary Surfactant, Cell Culture, and Tissue Regeneration as Models for Understanding the Evolution of Developmental Physiology -- 2. In Vivo and Functional Imaging in Developmental Physiology -- 3. Models for Embryonic Respiration -- 4. Physiology, Development, Genetics, and the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity: Studies with Butterfly Eyespots -- 5. The Role of Developmental Plasticity in Comparative Physiology: Mechanism and Process -- 6. The Physiological Basis for Metabolic Scaling in Animals: A Developing Perspective -- 7. Developmental Costs and the Partitioning of Metabolic Energy -- 8. Temperature-Induced Developmental Plasticity in Ectotherms -- 9. Developmental Physiology: Its Importance for Environmental Conservation and Biomedical Research -- 10. Practical Applications Derived from Basic Developmental Studies -- 11. Sciomics: Community/Model Organism-Based and Individualistic Research Strategies for Comparative Animal Developmental Physiology -- 12. Complexity Change during Physiological Development -- 13. A Physiological Approach to Heterochrony -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.