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Author | : Alessandro Minelli |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2013-04-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642361609 |
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More than two thirds of all living organisms described to date belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But their diversity, as measured in terms of species number, is also accompanied by an amazing disparity in terms of body form, developmental processes, and adaptations to every inhabitable place on Earth, from the deepest marine abysses to the earth surface and the air. The Arthropoda also include one of the most fashionable and extensively studied of all model organisms, the fruit-fly, whose name is not only linked forever to Mendelian and population genetics, but has more recently come back to centre stage as one of the most important and more extensively investigated models in developmental genetics. This approach has completely changed our appreciation of some of the most characteristic traits of arthropods as are the origin and evolution of segments, their regional and individual specialization, and the origin and evolution of the appendages. At approximately the same time as developmental genetics was eventually turning into the major agent in the birth of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), molecular phylogenetics was challenging the traditional views on arthropod phylogeny, including the relationships among the four major groups: insects, crustaceans, myriapods, and chelicerates. In the meantime, palaeontology was revealing an amazing number of extinct forms that on the one side have contributed to a radical revisitation of arthropod phylogeny, but on the other have provided evidence of a previously unexpected disparity of arthropod and arthropod-like forms that often challenge a clear-cut delimitation of the phylum.
Author | : Nicholas James Strausfeld |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 849 |
Release | : 2012-01-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674046331 |
Download Arthropod Brains Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin proposed that an ant’s brain, no larger than a pin’s head, must be sophisticated to accomplish all that it does. Yet today many people still find it surprising that insects and other arthropods show behaviors that are much more complex than innate reflexes. They are products of versatile brains which, in a sense, think. Fascinating in their own right, arthropods provide fundamental insights into how brains process and organize sensory information to produce learning, strategizing, cooperation, and sociality. Nicholas Strausfeld elucidates the evolution of this knowledge, beginning with nineteenth-century debates about how similar arthropod brains were to vertebrate brains. This exchange, he shows, had a profound and far-reaching impact on attitudes toward evolution and animal origins. Many renowned scientists, including Sigmund Freud, cut their professional teeth studying arthropod nervous systems. The greatest neuroanatomist of them all, Santiago Ramón y Cajal—founder of the neuron doctrine—was awed by similarities between insect and mammalian brains. Writing in a style that will appeal to a broad readership, Strausfeld weaves anatomical observations with evidence from molecular biology, neuroethology, cladistics, and the fossil record to explore the neurobiology of the largest phylum on earth—and one that is crucial to the well-being of our planet. Highly informative and richly illustrated, Arthropod Brains offers an original synthesis drawing on many fields, and a comprehensive reference that will serve biologists for years to come.
Author | : John L. Cloudsley-Thompson |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642613608 |
Download Evolution and Adaptation of Terrestrial Arthropods Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is intended as a textbook for 3rd year undergraduate students, as well as postgraduate students. It comprises a review of the current opinion regarding the evolution and adaptation of terrestrial arthropods, beginning with the paleontological, embryological, morphological and physiological evidence. The implication of size is then considered in relation to life on land. A discussion of insect phylogeny and the origin of flight is followed by an account of evolutionary trends in reproduction. Further chapters cover adaptations to extreme environments, dispersal and migration, defensive mechanisms and, finally, present arguments for the success of the terrestrial arthropods in general.
Author | : A. P. Gupta |
Publisher | : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Arthropod Phylogeny Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Nicholas James Strausfeld |
Publisher | : Belknap Press |
Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780674062627 |
Download Arthropod Brains Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Insects and other arthropods show complex behaviors that are products of versatile brains which, in a sense, think. Strausfeld weaves anatomical observations, molecular biology, neuroethology, cladistics, and the fossil record to explore how arthropod brains process sensory information to produce learning, strategizing, cooperation, and sociality.
Author | : Richard A Fortey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1997-12-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789401149051 |
Download Arthropod Relationships Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Stefan Koenemann |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2005-04-27 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1420037544 |
Download Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Compared to other arthropods, crustaceans are characterized by an unparalleled disparity of body plans. Traditionally, the specialization of arthropod segments and appendages into distinct body regions has served as a convenient basis for higher classification; however, many relationships within the phylum Arthropoda still remain controversial.
Author | : Sidnie Milana Manton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Download The Arthropoda Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Scott Richard Shaw |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2014-09-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 022616361X |
Download Planet of the Bugs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Chronicles the evolution of insects and explains how evolutionary innovations have enabled them to disperse widely, occupy narrow niches, and survive global catastrophes. --Publisher's description.
Author | : David Grimaldi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 2005-05-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 110726877X |
Download Evolution of the Insects Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the 3 billion-year history of life on Earth, and the most ecologically dominant animals on land. This book chronicles for the first time the complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships and 400 million years of fossils. Whereas other volumes have focused on either living species or fossils, this is the first comprehensive synthesis of all aspects of insect evolution. The book is illustrated with 955 photo- and electronmicrographs, drawings, diagrams, and field photos, many in full colour and virtually all of them original. The book will appeal to anyone engaged with insect diversity: professional entomologists and students, insect and fossil collectors, and naturalists.