This book is intended as a clear articulation of the mission, goals, and needs of fundamental taxonomists and a planetary-scale inventory of species by revisiting the idea of taxonomy as a fusion of the traditional questions asked by taxonomists and...Loe edasi...
This book presents an engaging and accessible examination of the role of systematic biology in species exploration and biodiversity conservation....Loe edasi...
Comparative biology became overtly evolutionary in the mid-19th century following acceptance of the ideas of Charles Darwin by Ernst Haeckel. During the next 100 years, these evolutionary concepts changed and inspired Phylogenetic Systematicsa body...Loe edasi...
Richard Leschen, Adam Slipinski, Rolf G. Beutel, Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga, Luca Bartolozzi, Robert Anderson, Jan Bezdek, Pierre Jolivet, Lech Borowiec, Jens Prena...
Sari: Handbook of Zoology/ Handbuch der Zoologie
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110274462)
Includes 43 chapters and covers one of the largest radiations of beetles, the mainly plant-feeding Phytophaga, with information on world distribution, biology, morphology and anatomy, phylogeny and comments on taxonomy....Loe edasi...
Written for a wide audience of biologists and philosophers, this text gives an excellent overview of the species problem without delving into the many feuds between the different schools of taxonomy. A perfect companion for field taxonomists and stu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Dec-2011, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199606023)
Animal Evolution is a complete analysis of the evolutionary interrelationships and myriad diversity of the animal kingdom. This new edition brings the subject fully up to date, especially in light of the latest advances in molecular techniques. It a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Dec-2008, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198566205)
Animal phylogeny is undergoing a major revolution due to the availability of an ever increasing amount of molecular data, the application of novel methods of phylogenetic reconstruction, and advances in palaeontology and molecular developmental biol...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Aug-2007, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198566687)
Although there are several books on the phylogenetic relationships of animals, this is the first to focus on the consequences of such relationships for the evolution of organs themselves. It provides a summary of evolutionary hypotheses for each of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2007, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199299188)
Ancestral sequence reconstruction is an interdisciplinary field of growing importance for understanding the evolution of molecular function. The technique is poised to become a mainstream component of molecular biology and functional genomics. This...Loe edasi...
Relates traditional taxonomic studies to the developments in biochemical and other fields. This work provides guidelines for the integration of modern and traditional methods, and explains the underlying principles and philosophy of systematics. It...Loe edasi...
The book presents a comparative investigation of the life histories and adaptation to parasitism exhibited by this unique family of flies. It also gives a detailed survey of each genus and provides a synopsis of the taxonomy of the family....Loe edasi...
This book would be particularly valuable to researchers in the fields of ecology, forestry, botany, and universities and scientific forest institutes. It includes 70 illustrations, 17 tables, and 442 bibliography....Loe edasi...
This volume presents the current state of our knowledge of the systematics of the approximately 300 species of cycads. It includes contributions from leading researchers from Australia, China, Italy, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand and the USA....Loe edasi...
* Valuable reference work for all those interested in the systematics of Bacillus and its relatives. * Produced in response to the successful Bacillus 2000 meeting in Bruges and was supported by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies,...Loe edasi...
This book provides a comprehensive review of entomopathogenic nematology. It begins by reviewing fundamental biology and setting a taxonomic foundation for nematodes and their bacterial symbionts....Loe edasi...
This book presents information on the taxonomy, chorology, and composition of species and subspecies of the plants under various divisions of the family of Lycopodiaceae and Hydrocharitaceae found in Siberia....Loe edasi...
