Zoology category: 2375 books
Amphibian Biology, Volume 11, Part 3
Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere: Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Amphibian species around the world are unusually vulnerable to a variety of threats, by no means all of which are properly understood. Volume 11 in this major series will be published in parts devoted to the causes of amphibian decline and to conservation measures in regions of the world; this Part 3...
Sustaining Young Forest Communities
Ecology and Management of early successional habitats in the central hardwood region, USA
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
This edited volume addresses a rising concern among natural resource scientists and management professionals about decline of the many plant and animal species associated with early-successional habitats, especially within the Central Hardwood Region of the USA. These open habitats, with herbaceous,...
Bacterial Fish Pathogens
Disease of Farmed and Wild Fish
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book puts emphasis on the isolation, taxonomy, diagnosis (phenotypic, serology and molecular biology), epizootiology, pathogenicity mechanisms, and methods of disease control (by vaccination, immunostimulation, probiotics, prebiotics, plant products, and antimicrobial compounds. Co-infections,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This book summarizes the status quo of the knowledge about the biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine animals that live in Japan. Consisting of some 6,800 islands that are arrayed for approximately 3,500 km from north to south, the Japanese archipelago has a complex history in a paleogeographic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This book presents 19 selected contributions to the 16th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2012 in Marseilles. The aims of these annual meetings, which gather together leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists, are to promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Many complex molecular interactions are involved in the development of the mammalian brain. Molecules serving as guidance cues for migratory cells, growing axons and for recognition of postsynaptic targets are a major topic for research because they are directly involved in the formation of neuronal...
Oxidative Stress and Hormesis in Evolutionary Ecology and Physiology
A Marriage Between Mechanistic and Evolutionary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
This book discusses oxidative stress and hormesis from the perspective of an evolutionary ecologist or physiologist. In the first of ten chapters, general historical information, definitions, and background of research on oxidative stress physiology, hormesis, and life history are provided. Chapters...
by Martin Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment. Consequently, they have evolved a staggering array of sensory organs that are fundamental to survival and reproduction and...
Lyme Disease
The Ecology of a Complex System
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Most human diseases come from nature, from pathogens that live and breed in non-human animals and are "accidentally" transmitted to us. Human illness is only the culmination of a complex series of interactions among species in their natural habitats. To avoid exposure to these pathogens, we must understand...
by Donald L. J. Quicke
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Deals with all aspects of adaptive resemblance
Full colour
Covers everything from classic examples of Batesian, Mullerian, aggressive and sexual mimicries through to human behavioural and microbial molecular deceptions
Highlights areas where additonal work or specific exeprimentation could be fruitful
Includes, animals, plants, micro-organisms and humans
Embryos in Deep Time
The Rock Record of Biological Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
How can we bring together the study of genes, embryos and fossils? Embryos in Deep Time is a critical synthesis of the study of individual development in fossils. It brings together an up-to-date review of concepts from comparative anatomy, ecology and developmental genetics, and examples of different...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Although the ancestral home of chelicerates was the sea, the vast majority of modern species live on land. Most students of spiders and mites also restrict themselves to terrestrial habitats. However, a surprising number of mites (Arachnida: Acari) have returned to a watery existence. Approximately...
Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Ostracoda
Theme 3 of the 13th International Symposium on Ostracoda (ISO97)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Ostracoda (Crustacea) are potentially excellent model organisms for evolutionary studies, because they combine an extensive fossil record with a wide recent distribution and therefore allow studies on both patterns and processes leading to extant diversity. The main scientific domains contributing...
Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Cladocera, held in Bergen, Norway, 9–16 August 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Third International Symposium on Cladocera, papers from which make up this volume, covered recent findings on the behaviour, life history, population genetics, reproduction, chemical communication, predator-prey interactions, epibionts, taxonomy, phylogeny, palaeolimnology and biogeography of...