Zoology category: 2375 books
Mouse Development
Patterning, Morphogenesis, and Organogenesis
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2002
This book represents a classic compilation of current knowledge about mouse development and its correlates to research in cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, and neuroscience. Emphasis is placed on the research strategy, experimental design, and critical analysis of the data, disguishing this...
The Sticky Synapse
Cell Adhesion Molecules and Their Role in Synapse Formation and Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2009
The molecular mechanisms, which are responsible for the functional differences between the various types of neuronal synapses, have become one of the central themes of modern neurobiology. It is becoming increasingly clear that a misregulation of synaptogenesis and synaptic remodeling and dysfunctional...
Controlled Reproduction of Wild Eurasian Perch
A hatchery manual
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
The work summarizes the current knowledge regarding the controlled reproduction of an emerging aquaculture species, the Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis). In great detail it describes and explains the principal of most of the controlled reproductive protocol leading to obtain high quality larvae....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
This volume discusses the current state of research findings related to healthy brain aging by integrating human clinical studies and translational research in animal models. Several chapters offer a unique overview of successful aging, age-related cognitive decline and its associated structural...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
All being done, we went to Mrs Shipmans, who is a great butter-woman; and I did see there the most of milke and cream, and the cleanest, that I ever saw in my life (29 May 1661). Among others, Sir Wm. Petty did tell me that in good earnest, he hath in his will left such parts of his estate to him...
The Cardiovascular System
Development, Plasticity and Physiological Responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The Cardiovascular System: Phenotypic and Physiological Responses, Volume 37, part of a two-volume set, provides comprehensive coverage of the current state of knowledge in this very active and growing field of research, also highlighting the tremendous diversity in cardiovascular morphology and function...
Dinosaurs
A Concise Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
The ideal textbook for non-science majors, this lively and engaging introduction encourages students to ask questions, assess data critically and think like a scientist. Building on the success of the previous editions, Dinosaurs has been reorganised and extensively rewritten in response to instructor...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
This collection of reviews will be of considerable interests to biologists and MDs working on any aspect of cardiovascular function. With state-of-the-art reviews written by competent experts in the field, the content is also of interest for MSc and PhD students in most fields of cardiovascular physiology.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This book provides an up-to-date review of the biology of myxozoans, which represent a divergent clade of endoparasitic cnidarians. Myxozoans are of fundamental interest in understanding how early diverging metazoans have adopted parasitic lifestyles, and are also of considerable economic and ecological...
Wood Destroying Insects
Wood Borers and Termites
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
This book provides architects, engineers, builders, foresters, members of the pest control and timber industries, and the general public with a ready source of reference to the more important wood borers and termites encountered in Australia. Many species of timber can be attacked by wood-destroying...
The Dodo and the Solitaire
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
This account of two extinct bird species offers “an amazing amount of history, references, facts, maps, and illustrations”****(Library Journal).
The Dodo and the Solitaire is the most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds. It contains all the known contemporary...
The Red Canary
The Story of the First Genetically Engineered Animal
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Winner of the Consul Cremer Prize, The Red Canary follows the compelling quest to turn the green canary red.
The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new, for in the 1920s an amateur...
Mites of Australia
A Checklist and Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
This Checklist brings together for the first time the names of all 2620 described species of mites that are known to occur in Australia. It gives the correct nomenclature for each species, and places every species in the appropriate genus and family, using the latest available classification. The...
Divided Brains
The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Asymmetry of the brain and behaviour (lateralization) has traditionally been considered unique to humans. However, research has shown that this phenomenon is widespread throughout the vertebrate kingdom and found even in some invertebrate species. A similar basic plan of organisation exists across...