Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Life Sciences - Zoology - Invertebrates

This book uses a wide range of case studies from different invertebrate taxa to describe the numerous forms of social recognition occurring in this large group of animals and traces the evolution of this cognitive ability. The authors provide several examples of direct (i.e. the target of recognition is a conspecific) and indirect recognition (i.e. recognition of a reliable proxy rather than an individual, such as a den or a substrate) and discuss cases of familiar recognition (i.e. an animal remembers a conspecific but cannot tell what class it comes from or recognize its identity)....

This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an evolutionary framework. Each chapter presents an in-depth yet concise overview of both classical and recent literature, supplemented by numerous color illustrations and micrographs of a given animal group. The largely taxon-based chapters are supplemented by essays on topical aspects relevant to modern-day EvoDevo research such as regeneration, embryos in...

This book is devoted to the ecology of invertebrate diseases caused by pathogens. It covers general principles, concepts and definitions, strategies and methods for research, factors that influence epizootics, major groups of pathogens causing disease in invertebrates, and practical aspects, such as enhancing disease in pest species and controlling diseases in beneficial invertebrates or in rearing invertebrates.

Arranged in four sections, this book begins with introductory material. It then discusses the basics of the ecology of invertebrate pathogens and the ecology of pathogen...

Skin and Arthropod Vectors discusses immunity during the transmission of arthropod-borne diseases. Recent research on skin immunity and the skin microbiome reveals the complexity of the skin and its importance in the development of immunity against arthropod-borne diseases. In such diseases, the skin interface has been shown as an essential site for pathogens to hide from the immune system (such as with malaria, borrelia, leishmania, trypanosome, etc.). and as a potential site of persistence. This work helps researchers develop more efficient diagnostic tools and vaccines, and gives...