Evolution and Adaptation of Terrestrial Arthropods

Evolution and Adaptation of Terrestrial Arthropods
Author: John L. Cloudsley-Thompson
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783642613609

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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.

Arthropod Biology and Evolution

Arthropod Biology and Evolution
Author: Alessandro Minelli,Geoffrey Boxshall,Giuseppe Fusco
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2013-04-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783642361609

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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.

Insect life cycle polymorphism

Insect life cycle polymorphism
Author: H.V. Danks
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789401718882

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Recent studies have shown that genetic polymorphisms play an important role in structuring the seasonal life cycles of insects, complementing an earlier emphasis on the effects of environmental factors. This book presents current ideas and recent research on insect life--cycle polymorphism in a series of carefully prepared chapters by international experts, covering the full breadth of the subject in order to give an up-to-date view of how life cycles are controlled and how they evolve. By consolidating our view of insect life--cycle polymorphism in this way, the book provides a staging point for further enquiries. The volume will be of interest to a wide variety of entomologists and other biologists interested in the control and evolution of life cycles and in understanding the extraordinarily complex ecological strategies of insects and other organisms.

Bugs in the System

Bugs in the System
Author: May R. Berenbaum
Publsiher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2010-11-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781459608108

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An introduction to insect physiology, genetics and behaviour which looks at the interaction between humans and insects, and explores both the positive and negative aspects of the relationship.

Animal Adaptation

Animal Adaptation
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1964
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

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Ecophysiology of Spiders

Ecophysiology of Spiders
Author: Wolfgang Nentwig
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783642715525

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Recently another book on insect physiology was published. It was restricted to a few focal points as are many of these new insect physiology books, but there was considerable depth in its specialized point of view. We were dis cussing the structure of this book and of insect physiology books, in general, when Prof. Remmert asked me " . . . and what about books on spider physio logy?" Silence. Then I started to explain "oh yes, there is a congress pro ceedings volume on this topic and there is a group with excellent publica tions on another topic . . . ", but I felt that this answer was weak. One can no longer buy the proceedings volume in a bookshop and to read a series of publications on a given topic one must search in a library for a dozen journals. Why is there not a single book on spider physiology comparable with the many books on insect physiology? Are spiders a scientific ivory tower, far from public interest and commercial importance? I do not think so, although spiders are one of the many "forgotten" animal groups which always grew in the shadow of the insects. There are research groups working on spider physiology, there are fascinating phenomena in this animal group and there are plenty of exciting results. Spiders may have been always underresearch ed, but research is progressing. In the last few years, new books have been published, e. g.

Desert Arthropods Life History Variations

Desert Arthropods  Life History Variations
Author: Fred Punzo
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783662040904

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It is difficult for me to recollect a time when I was not fascinated with the very notion of a desert. Walt Disney's film, The Living Desert, which I initially saw when I was 8 years of age, provided me with my first glimpse of this wondrous yet seemingly ho stile environment. The images were hypnotic and captivating. I looked on in amazement at the promenade Cl deux of the male and female scorpions during courtship. Their rhythmic and coordinated movements as they grasped one another made them appear to glide in unis on over the surface of the sand, each individual totally absorbed with its partner. In the next minute the fern ale had suddenly and utterly transformed herself like some Jekyll and Hyde act, into an aggressive predator whose prior gregarious embrace was now a hold of death for the male. The indomitable desert grasshopper mouse, the ever sentient kit fox, the graceful shovel-nosed snake swimming in an endless sea of sand.

Arthropod Phylogeny

Arthropod Phylogeny
Author: A. P. Gupta
Publsiher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Total Pages: 792
Release: 1979
Genre: Arthropoda
ISBN: UCSD:31822011247517

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