A Student's Guide to the Seashore
A Student's Guide to the Seashore

Author: J. D. Fish

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-01-13

Total Pages: 573

ISBN-13: 1139494511

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This unique, concise and beautifully-illustrated guide allows students to identify over 650 of the common, widespread animals and seaweeds of the shore. User-friendly dichotomous keys are supported by details of diagnostic features and biology of each species. Now enhanced with 32 pages of colour, this much acclaimed guide is invaluable to students of marine biology at any level. Questions such as how does the species reproduce? What is its life-cycle? How does it feed? are answered in the notes accompanying each species to give a fascinating insight into the diversity and complexity of life on the shore. The text is supported by an extensive glossary of scientific terms and a comprehensive bibliography is included to aid further study. The third edition builds on the excellent reviews of earlier editions and will continue to appeal to a wide readership, including students, teachers and naturalists.

Phylum Ctenophora
Phylum Ctenophora

Author: Penny Bright

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-04-18

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781977577139

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Dr. Sparky Pappalardo, or "Pap," is a research scientist who only wants to use molecular biology to cure cancer. Instead, her work on therapeutic viruses is sabotaged, probably by another scientist. As she investigates, she uncovers corruption, extortion and malfeasance. Her Medical University seems staffed with incompetent, apathetic and addictive creatures. Strangely, her supervisor reminds her of a tunicate salp. Follow the hilarious Pap, her beautiful pet ctenophores and her "Fabio-with-brains" boyfriend as they fight a mysterious poisoning, destruction of her laboratory and violent assaults. Learn some painless biology while Pap and her quirky friends unravel these mysteries. This is the second in the fictional "Phylum" series.

Jellyfish
Jellyfish

Author: Lisa-ann Gershwin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 022628770X

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An introduction to these bizarre and beautiful creatures of the sea, filled with color photos and illustrations: “Fascinating.”—Boing Boing Jellyfish are the oldest multi-organed life form on the planet, having inhabited the ocean for more than five hundred million years. With their undulating umbrella-shaped bells and sprawling tentacles, they are compelling and gorgeous, strange and dangerous. In many places they’re also vastly increasing in number, and these population blooms may be an ominous indicator of the rising temperatures and toxicity of the oceans. Jellyfish presents these aquarium favorites in all their glory. Fifty unique species, from the purple people eater to black sea nettles, are presented in stunning photos along with the most current scientific information on their anatomy, history, distribution, position in the water, and environmental status. Foremost jellyfish expert Lisa-ann Gershwin provides an insightful look at the natural history and biology of each of these spellbinding creatures, plus a timely take on their place in the rapidly changing and deteriorating condition of the oceans. Learn about immortal jellyfish who live and die and live again—as well as those who camouflage themselves amid sea grasses and shells, hiding in plain sight. Discover the jellyfish that’s the world’s most venomous animal, and the jellyfish that helped scientists win the Nobel Prize. They’re all here and more in this delightful volume. “A thorough coverage of jellyfish history, biology and ecology. Gershwin, a marine biologist who has discovered over 200 new species of jellyfish, does an excellent job of combining a compelling narrative of 50 different jellyfish with luscious, I-can’t-believe-they’re-real photos.”—Boing Boing

Plankton
Plankton

Author: Christian Sardet

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-06-05

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 022618871X

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A sequence of elaborate close-up photographs of a diverse range of plankton organisms displays their phosphorescent beauty and translucent colors against contrasting black backgrounds while offering historical and scientific discussions for each depicted species. --Publisher's description.

Invertebrate Histology
Invertebrate Histology

Author: Elise E. B. LaDouceur

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-01-08

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 111950760X

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The first comprehensive reference to invertebrate histology Invertebrate Histology is a groundbreaking text that offers a comprehensive review of histology in invertebrates. Designed for use by anyone studying, diagnosing, or researching invertebrates, the book covers all major taxonomic groups with details of the histologic features, with color photographs and drawings that clearly demonstrate gross anatomy and histology. The authors, who are each experts in the histology of their respective taxa, bring together the most recent information on the topic into a single, complete volume. An accessible resource, each chapter focuses on a single taxonomic group with salient gross and histologic features that are clearly described in the text and augmented with color photographs and greyscale line drawings. The histologic images are from mostly hematoxylin and eosin stained microscopic slides showing various organ systems at high and low magnification. In addition, each chapter provides helpful tips for invertebrate dissection and information on how to process invertebrates for histology. This important book: Presents detailed information on histology of all major groups of invertebrates Offers a user-friendly text that is organized by taxonomic group for easy reference Features high-quality color photographs and drawings, with slides showing histology and gross photographs to demonstrate anatomy Provides details on invertebrate dissection and processing invertebrates for histology Written for veterinary pathologists, biologists, zoologists, students, and other scientists studying these species, Invertebrate Histology offers the most updated information on the topic written by over 20 experts in the field.

Biology of the Invertebrates
Biology of the Invertebrates

Author: Jan Pechenik

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education

Published: 2014-02-11

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 0077496175

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This textbook is the most concise and readable invertebrates book in terms of detail and pedagogy (other texts do not offer boxed readings, a second color, end of chapter questions, or pronunciation guides). All phyla of invertebrates are covered (comprehensive) with an emphasis on unifying characteristics of each group.

Subseafloor Biosphere Linked to Hydrothermal Systems
Subseafloor Biosphere Linked to Hydrothermal Systems

Author: Jun-ichiro Ishibashi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-01-10

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 4431548653

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This book is the comprehensive volume of the TAIGA (“a great river ” in Japanese) project. Supported by the Japanese government, the project examined the hypothesis that the subseafloor fluid advection system (subseafloor TAIGA) can be categorized into four types, TAIGAs of sulfur, hydrogen, carbon (methane), and iron, according to the most dominant reducing substance, and the chemolithoautotrophic bacteria/archaea that are inextricably associated with respective types of TAIGAs which are strongly affected by their geological background such as surrounding host rocks and tectonic settings. Sub-seafloor ecosystems are sustained by hydrothermal circulation or TAIGA that carry chemical energy to the chemosynthetic microbes living in an extreme environment. The results of the project have been summarized comprehensively in 50 chapters, and this book provides an overall introduction and relevant topics on the mid-ocean ridge system of the Indian Ocean and on the arc-backarc systems of the Southern Mariana Trough and Okinawa Trough.