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Author : Cerisse E. Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000067784425
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112755769
Author : Stephanie M. Welter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000094865262
Author : Roy W. McDiarmid,Ronald Altig
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226557626
In our own juvenile stage, many of us received our wide-eyed introduction to the wonders of nature by watching the metamorphosis of swimming tadpoles into leaping frogs and toads. The recent alarming declines in amphibian populations worldwide and the suitability of amphibians for use in answering research questions in disciplines as diverse as molecular systematics, animal behavior, and evolutionary biology have focused enormous attention on tadpoles. Despite this popular and scientific interest, relatively little is known about these fascinating creatures. In this indispensable reference, leading experts on tadpole biology relate what we currently know about tadpoles and what we might learn from them in the future. Tadpoles provides detailed summaries of tadpole morphology, development, behavior, ecology, and environmental physiology; explores the evolutionary consequences of the tadpole stage; synthesizes available information on their biodiversity; and presents a standardized terminology and an exhaustive literature review of tadpole biology.
Author : Michael Taborsky,Michael A. Cant,Jan Komdeur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107011182
First book to outline the fundamental principles of social evolution underlying the stunning diversity of social systems and behaviours.
Author : Adrian Barnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521881586
The first detailed collation of the evolution, ecology and conservation of some of South America's least-known, and most endangered, primates.
Author : William J. Bell,Ring T. Cardé
Publisher : Springer
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781489933683
Our objective in compiling a series of chapters on the chemical ecology of insects has been to delineate the major concepts of this discipline. The fine line between presenting a few topics in great detail or many topics in veneer has been carefully drawn, such that the book contains sufficient diversity to cover the field and a few topics in some depth. After the reader has penetrated the crust of what has been learned about chemical ecology of insects, the deficiencies in our understanding of this field should become evident. These deficiencies, to which no chapter topic is immune, indicate the youthful state of chemical ecology and the need for further investigations, especially those with potential for integrating elements that are presently isolated from each other. At the outset of this volume it becomes evident that, although we are beginning to decipher how receptor cells work, virtually nothing is known of how sensory information is coded to become relevant to the insect and to control the behavior of the insect. This problem is exacerbated by the state of our knowledge of how chemicals are distributed in nature, especially in complex habitats. And finally, we have been unable to understand the significance of orientation pathways of insects, in part because of the two previous problems: orientation seems to depend on patterns of distri bution of chemicals, the coding of these patterns by the central nervous system, and the generation of motor output based on the resulting motor commands.
Author : Douglas Whitman,T. N. Ananthakrishnan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : MINN:31951D02868193E
This book explores the profound importance of phenotypic plasticity as a central organizing theme for understanding biology. Chapters take a broad, integrative approach to explain how physical and biological environmental stimuli (temperature, photoperiod, nutrition, population density, predator presence, etc.), influence insect biochemical, physiological, learning, and developmental processes, altering phenotype, which then influences performance, ecology, life-history, survival, fitness, and subsequent evolution. Topics include endocrinology, development, body size, allometry, polyphenism, reproduction, reproductive and life-history tradeoffs, alternative mating and life-history strategies, density-dependent prophylaxis, physiological adaptation, acclimation, homeostasis, heat-shock proteins, learning, adaptive anti-predator behavior, and evolution of phenotypic plasticity.
Author : Elena Choleris,Donald W. Pfaff,Martin Kavaliers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107328051
The mammalian neurohypophyseal peptide hormones oxytocin and vasopressin act to mediate human social behavior - they affect trust and social relationships and have an influence on avoidance responses. Describing the evolutionary roots of the effects that these neuropeptides have on behavior, this book examines remarkable parallel findings in both humans and non-human animals. The chapters are structured around three key issues: the molecular and neurohormonal mechanisms of peptides; phylogenetic considerations of their role in vertebrates; and their related effects on human behavior, social cognition and clinical applications involving psychiatric disorders such as autism. A final chapter summarizes current research perspectives and reflects on the outlook for future developments. Providing a comparative overview and featuring contributions from leading researchers, this is a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers and clinicians in this rapidly developing field.
Author : Timothy M. Caro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226094366
Tim Caro explores the many & varied ways in which prey species have evolved defensive characteristics and behaviour to confuse, outperform or outwit their predators, from the camoflaged coat of the giraffe to the extraordinary way in which South American sealions ward off the attacks of killer whales.
Author : Philip Huntley Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Newts
ISBN : PSU:000009706262
Author : Janice R. Matthews
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429725036
Interest in insect behavior is growing rapidly, as reflected both in courses devoted fully to the topic and in its inclusion in general biology, ecology, invertebrate zoology, and animal behavior--as well as general entomology--curricula. Instructors and students find that insects are in many ways uniquely suitable animals for behavioral study: the
Author : Gerd B. Muller,Stuart A. Newman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262134195
A more comprehensive version of evolutionary theory that focuses as much on the origin of biological form as on its diversification. The field of evolutionary biology arose from the desire to understand the origin and diversity of biological forms. In recent years, however, evolutionary genetics, with its focus on the modification and inheritance of presumed genetic programs, has all but overwhelmed other aspects of evolutionary biology. This has led to the neglect of the study of the generative origins of biological form. Drawing on work from developmental biology, paleontology, developmental and population genetics, cancer research, physics, and theoretical biology, this book explores the multiple factors responsible for the origination of biological form. It examines the essential problems of morphological evolution—why, for example, the basic body plans of nearly all metazoans arose within a relatively short time span, why similar morphological design motifs appear in phylogenetically independent lineages, and how new structural elements are added to the body plan of a given phylogenetic lineage. It also examines discordances between genetic and phenotypic change, the physical determinants of morphogenesis, and the role of epigenetic processes in evolution. The book discusses these and other topics within the framework of evolutionary developmental biology, a new research agenda that concerns the interaction of development and evolution in the generation of biological form. By placing epigenetic processes, rather than gene sequence and gene expression changes, at the center of morphological origination, this book points the way to a more comprehensive theory of evolution.
Author : Thomas J. Matthews,Kostas A. Triantis,Robert J. Whittaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108477079
Provides a comprehensive synthesis of a fundamental phenomenon, the species-area relationship, addressing theory, evidence and application.
Author : G.W. Esch,J.C. Fernandez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401123525
Series Editor: Peter Calow, Department of Zoology, University of Sheffield, England The main aim of this series will be to illustrate and to explain the way organisms 'make a living' in nature. At the heart of this - their functional biology - is the way organisms acquire and then make use of resources in metabolism, movement, growth, reproduction, and so on. These processes will form the fundamental framework of all the books in the series. Each book will concentrate on a particular taxon (species, family, class or even phylum) and will bring together information on the form, physiology, ecology and evolutionary biology of the group. The aim will be not only to describe how organisms work, but also to consider why they have come to work in that way. By concentration on taxa which are well known, it is hoped that the series will not only illustrate the success of selection, but also show the constraints imposed upon it by the physiological, morphological and developmental limitations of the groups. Another important feature of the series will be its organismic orientation. Each book will emphasize the importance of functional integration in the day to-day lives and the evolution of organisms. This is crucial since, though it may be true that organisms can be considered as collections of gene determined traits, they nevertheless interact with their environment as integrated wholes and it is in this context that individual traits have been subjected to natural selection and have evolved.