An introduction to the invertebrates /
This second edition provides a short updated guide to the invertebrate phyla, looking at their diverse forms, functions and evolutionary relationships. It introduces evolution and modern methods of tracing it, then considers the distinctive body plan of each invertebrate phylum showing what has evol...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. The process of evolution : natural selection
- Ch. 2. The pattern of evolution : methods of investigation
- Ch. 3. Porifera
- Ch. 4. Cnidaria
- Ch. 5. On being a worm
- Ch. 6. Platyhelminthes and acoelomorpha
- Ch. 7. Nemertea
- Ch. 8. Nematoda
- Ch. 9. Annelida
- Ch. 10. Mollusca : general and gastropoda
- Ch. 11. Mollusca : bivalvia and cephalopoda
- Ch. 12. Arthropoda : general
- Ch. 13. Crustacea
- Ch. 14. Chelicerata and myriapoda
- Ch. 15. Insecta
- Ch. 16. Animals with lophophores
- Ch. 17. Echinodermata
- Ch. 18. Invertebrate chordata and hemichordata
- Ch. 19. Development
- Ch. 20. Invertebrate evolutionary history.