Biological category: 21163 books
Medaka
A Model for Organogenesis, Human Disease, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Oryzias latipes, known as medaka, is a model organism from East Asia. Breeding of this small, egg-laying freshwater teleost fish has long been popular among hobbyists in Japan. Now, as biological science has entered the genome era, the medaka provides significant advantages that make it one of the...
Species Concepts in Biology
Historical Development, Theoretical Foundations and Practical Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Frank E. Zachos offers a comprehensive review of one of today’s most important and contentious issues in biology: the species problem. After setting the stage with key background information on the topic, the book provides a brief history of species concepts from antiquity to the Modern Synthesis,...
Perspectives in Ethology
Evolution, Culture, and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The relations between behavior, evolution, and culture have been a subject of vigorous debate since the publication of Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871). The latest volume of Perspectives in Ethology brings anthropologists, ethologists, psychologists, and evolutionary theorists together to reexamine...
Sperm Biology
An Evolutionary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2008
Sperm Biology represents the first analysis of the evolutionary significance of sperm phenotypes and derived sperm traits and the possible selection pressures responsible for sperm-egg coevolution.
An understanding of sperm evolution is fast developing and promises to shed light on many topics...
The Biology of the Avian Respiratory System
Evolution, Development, Structure and Function
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The central focus of this book is the avian respiratory system. The authors explain why the respiratory system of modern birds is built the way it is and works the way that it does. Birds have been and continue to attract particular interest to biologists. The more birds are studied, the more it is appreciated...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The objectives of this volume are to present an up-to-date (literature survey up to 2001) account of the biology of Artemia focusing particularly upon the major advances in knowledge and understanding achieved in the last fifteen or so years and emphasising the operational and functional linkage between...
by Antonio Lima-de-Faria
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
After having read this book you will never see birds in the same way again.
The unexpected patterns displayed by a bird’s body have been seen as bizarre events that demanded little attention or were described as ‘amazing curiosities’.
None of these surprising features seem to be...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
All animals and plants form associations with hundreds or thousands of different beneficial microorganisms. These symbiotic microbes play an important role in the development, adaptation, health and evolution of their hosts. This book brings together a group of diverse biologists to discuss microbial...
Foundations of Regenerative Medicine
Clinical and Therapeutic Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
The interdisciplinary field of regenerative medicine holds the promise of repairing and replacing tissues and organs damaged by disease and of developing therapies for previously untreatable conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, and renal failure. Derived from the fields of tissue...
by Herbert H. Srebnik
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Anatomy, to be sure, is the essential foundation of clinical practice, but it is much more than that. First and foremost, anatomy is a biological science. There is order and logic to the organization of the human body and the arrangement of its parts. And, as all sciences, anatomy offers challenge...
by Fredrick Sproull
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Evolution is a scientific theory asserting that species of organisms are capable of changing through time into different species. Present day species are thought to share common ancestors and genetic continuity with species that lived in the past. Evolution replaced an ancient view that species are...
by Maria B. O'Hare
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This book assesses the unjust suppression & more recent scientific vindication of the 'Original Founder of Evolution' Jean Baptiste Lamarck.
Not many know that Darwin himself was a Lamarckian as he believed that blindness in cave-fish was due to the disuse of their eyes brought about by finding...
It's in Your DNA
From Discovery to Structure, Function and Role in Evolution, Cancer and Aging
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
It's in Your DNA: From Discovery to Structure, Function and Role in Evolution, Cancer and Aging describes, in a clear, approachable manner, the progression of the experiments that eventually led to our current understanding of DNA. This fascinating work tells the whole story from the discovery of...
Sketches of Nature
A Geneticist's Look at the Biological World During a Golden Era of Molecular Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This visually appealing book recounts the history of molecular ecology and evolution as seen through the personal lens of one of its most prolific practitioners, who has studied a panorama of creatures ranging from corals, sponges, and other invertebrates to a wide variety of vertebrate animals including...