Functional Vertebrate Morphology /
Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2013]
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Edición: | Reprint 2014 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Functional Adaptation in Skeletal Structures
- Chapter 2. Body Support, Scaling, and Allometry
- Chapter 3. Walking and Running
- Chapter 4. Jumping and Leaping
- Chapter 5. Climbing
- Chapter 6. Digging of Quadrupeds
- Chapter 7. Swimming
- Chapter 8. Flying, Gliding, and Soaring
- Chapter 9. Terrestrial Locomotion without Appendages
- Chapter 10. Energetics and Locomotion
- Chapter 11. Ventilation
- Chapter 12. Aquatic Feeding in Lower Vertebrates
- Chapter 13. Feeding Mechanisms of Lower Tetrapods
- Chapter 14. Mastication, Food Transport, and Swallowing
- Chapter 15. The Octavolateralis System
- Chapter 16. The Vertebrate Eye
- Chapter 17. Neural Control of Locomotion
- Chapter 18. Morphology: Current Approaches and Concepts
- References, Acknowledgments, Contributors, Index
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index