It upsets their thermoregulation.
The most important mechanism in cetacean thermoregulation is the development of countercurrent blood exchange, an adaptation that allows the animal to either conserve or dissipate heat as needed.
Because the plates contained many blood vessels, the alternating placement appears consistent with a hypothesis of thermoregulation.
The significance of thermoregulation can be seen by comparing today's reptiles with mammals.
Other than this, very little is known about the molecular details of thermoregulation in fish.
The eccrine glands, then, can be divided into those that respond to thermal stimulation, the function of which is thermoregulation, and those that respond to psychological stimuli and keep friction surfaces moist.
Further studies have indicated that thermoregulation is particularly important in G. morhua, affecting many aspects of the fish's behaviour and physiology, including respiration.
Their varied modes of reproduction and their ability to regulate body temperatures are two of many areas studied by comparative physiologists (see thermoregulation).
Such emotions motivate behaviour, and this enhances survival since these behaviours help maintain an optimal core body temperature, which is the goal of the internal homeostatic process known as thermoregulation.
The evolutionary role of thermoreception is to subserve the process of thermoregulation.
