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Author: Brian Frederick Kensley
Publisher: CRC PressI Llc
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9789058093271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA look at isopod systematics and evolution, topics confronted include the influence of genetic and extrachromasomal factors on their population rate and a comparison of different species in different habitats.
Author: Richard C. Brusca
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 90
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Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2003-12-09
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0080493742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParasitology continues to benefit from taking an evolutionary approach to its study. Tree construction, character-mapping, tree-based evolutionary interpretation, and other developments in molecular and morphological phylogenetics have had a profound influence and have shed new light on the very nature of host-parasite relations and their coevolution. Life cycle complexity, parasite ecology and the origins and evolution of parasitism itself are all underpinned by an understanding of phylogeny. The Evolution of Parasitism - A Phylogenetic Perspective aims to bring together a range of articles that exemplifies the phylogenetic approach as applied to various disciplines within parasitology and as applied by parasitologists. Unified by the use of phylogenies, this book tackles a wide variety of parasite-specific biological problems across a diverse range of taxa. - Includes important contributions from leading minds in the field such as Serge Morand, Francisco Ayala and Mark Blaxter, among others - Second in the ISI Parasitology List in 2002 with an Impact Factor of 4.818 - Series encompasses over 35 years of parasitology coverage
Author: Martin Thiel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-03-16
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 0199797064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second volume in the Natural History of the Crustacea series examines how crustaceans-the different body shapes and adaptations of which are described in volume 1-make a living in the wide range of environments they inhabit, and how they exploit food sources. The contributions in the volume give synthetic overviews of particular lifestyles and feeding mechanisms, and offer a fresh look at crustacean life styles through the technological tools that have been applied to recent crustacean research. These include SEM (scanning electron microscope) techniques, micro-optics, and long-term video recordings that have been used for a variety of behavioral studies. The audience will include not only crustacean biologists but evolutionary ecologists who want to understand the diversification of particular life styles, ecologists who follow the succession of communities, biogeochemists who estimate the role of crustaceans in geochemical fluxes, and biologists with a general interest in crustaceans.
Author: Gary C. B. Poore
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780643069015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe published works are derived from the Zoological catalogue of Australia database. Taxa in the Australian fauna are divided among volumes to form sets of about 1800-2000 species available names, such that each volume comprises the whole or part of one or more major groups.
Author: Ernst Elliott Naylor
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vernon Everett Thatcher
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9546422584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Academy of Sciences
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2009-12-30
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0309139864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo Centuries of Darwin is the outgrowth of an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences on January 16-17, 2009. In the chapters of this book, leading evolutionary biologists and science historians reflect on and commemorate the Darwinian Revolution. They canvass modern research approaches and current scientific thought on each of the three main categories of selection (natural, artificial, and sexual) that Darwin addressed during his career. Although Darwin's legacy is associated primarily with the illumination of natural selection in The Origin, he also contemplated and wrote extensively about what we now term artificial selection and sexual selection. In a concluding section of this book, several science historians comment on Darwin's seminal contributions. Two Centuries of Darwin is the third book of the In the Light of Evolution series. Each installment in the series explores evolutionary perspectives on a particular biological topic that is scientifically intriguing but also has special relevance to contemporary societal issues or challenges. The ILE series aims to interpret phenomena in various areas of biology through the lens of evolution and address some of the most intellectually engaging, as well as pragmatically important societal issues of our times.
Author: David C. Culver
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780674004252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheir work reveals the advantages of caves for studying natural selection: the highly simplified habitats found underground serve as a natural laboratory for the evolutionary biologist, and the distinctive morphological features of cave fauna provide a wealth of data on evolutionary history and natural selection.
Author: Gary A. Wellborn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 0190620277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrustaceans are increasingly used as model organisms in all fields of biology, as few other taxa exhibit such a variety of body shapes and adaptations to particular habitats and environmental conditions. Life Histories is the fifth volume in The Natural History of the Crustacea series. An understanding of life histories is crucial to understanding the biology of this fascinating invertebrate group. Written by internationally recognized experts studying a wide range of crustacean taxa and topics, this volume synthesizes current research in a format that is accessible to a wide scientific audien.
