The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: Introduction and protozoans to arthropods
The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: Introduction and protozoans to arthropods

Author: P. J. Hayward

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13:

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This is the first part of a comprehensive two-volume treatise that describes and illustrates over 2,000 marine species, ranging from protozoans to fishes, native to the coastal waters of the British Isles and north-western Europe. The most complete account available of its kind, the books cover all benthic habitats, from the intertidal zone to a depth of approximately 30 meters. Each major animal group is covered, with information on the morphology, biology, ecology of representative species, and techniques for their collection and study. Estuarine and supralittoral faunas are also described. Identification is facilitated by dichotomous keys to families and then to genera and species. Short diagnostic accounts are given for each family and higher taxon, and descriptions of all species are followed by notes on their ecological and geographical distribution. Line drawings are also included to help clarify the material presented in the text.

Development of Sea Urchins, Ascidians, and Other Invertebrate Deuterostomes: Experimental Approaches
Development of Sea Urchins, Ascidians, and Other Invertebrate Deuterostomes: Experimental Approaches

Author: Charles A. Ettensohn

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing

Published: 2004-10-22

Total Pages: 948

ISBN-13: 9780124802797

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This book provides a practical guide to experimental methods for studying the development of invertebrate deuterostomes, such as sea urchins, ascidians, hemichordates, and amphioxus. These model organisms are of contemporary and historical importance to the study of developmental biology, particularly genomic research. The chapters provide detailed experimental protocols that cover a broad range of topics in modern experimental methods. Topics covered range from rearing embryos to the care of adult animals, while also presenting the basic experimental methods including light and electron microscopy, used to study gene expression, transgenics, reverse genetics, and genomic approaches. * Covers a wide range of methods, from classical embryology through modern genomics * Discusses animals related to vertebrates, providing a valuable evolutionary perspective * Includes a practical guide to the use of sea urchins in the teaching laboratory

Not Just for Show
Not Just for Show

Author: Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2017-08-31

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1785706934

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Beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments are made of diverse materials such as shell, bone, stones, minerals, and composite materials. Their exploration from geographical and chronological settings around the world offers a glimpse at some of the cutting edge research within the fast growing field of personal ornaments in humanities’ past. Recent studies are based on a variety of analytical procedures that highlight humankind’s technological advances, exchange networks, mortuary practices, and symbol-laden beliefs. Papers discuss the social narratives behind bead and beadwork manufacture, use and disposal; the way beads work visually, audibly and even tactilely to cue wearers and audience to their social message(s). Understanding the entangled social and technical aspects of beads require a broad spectrum of technical and methodological approaches including the identification of the sources for the raw material of beads. These scientific approaches are also combined in some instances with experimentation to clarify the manner in which beads were produced and used in past societies.

Biology of Fishes
Biology of Fishes

Author: Quentin Bone

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2008-03-19

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1134186312

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The VitalBook e-book version of Biology of Fishes is only available only in the US and Canada at the present time. To purchase or rent please visit http://store.vitalsource.com/show/978-1-1341-8631-0. The Third Edition of Biology of Fishes is chiefly about fish as remarkably efficient machines for coping with the many problems that life in wat

Catalogue des invertébrés marins de l'estuaire et du golfe du Saint-Laurent
Catalogue des invertébrés marins de l'estuaire et du golfe du Saint-Laurent

Author: Pierre Brunel

Publisher: Presses scientifiques du CNRC = NRC Research Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13:

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A catalogue that presents an inventory of 2214 species, subspecies and varieties, most of them named to the species level of metazoan invertebrates recorded from the Gulf of St Lawrence, the St Lawrence Estuary. It covers the Saguenay Fjord Benthic, Planktonic, nektonic and parasitic species and some salt-tolerant freshwater species.