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Insect metamorphosis : from natural history to regulation of development and evolution /
Insect Metamorphosis: From Natural History to Regulation of Development and Evolution explores the origin of metamorphosis, how it evolved, and how it is it regulated. The book discusses insect metamorphosis as a key innovation in insect evolution. With most of the present biodiversity on Earth comp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, United Kingdom :
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The evolution of ideas on insect metamorphosis
- A spectacular diversity of forms and developmental modes
- The ametabolan development
- The hemimetabolan development
- The holometabolan development
- Hormones involved in the regulation of metamorphosis
- Molecular mechanisms regulating hormone production and action
- Epigenetic-related mechanisms
- Molting : the basis for growing and for changing the form
- Regulation of ametabolan, hemimetabolan, and holometabolan development
- The origin of hemimetaboly
- The evolution of metamorphosis.