Evolution

This book places grapes in the context of their family, the Vitaceae.

This volume presents some of the research topics discussed at the 2014-2015 Annual Thematic Program Discrete Structures: Analysis and Applications at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications during Fall 2014, when combinatorics was the focus.

This unique book brings together a wealth of data on the botanical, ethno-medicinal and pharmacological aspects of over 500 species of Asian medicinal orchids.

Entomology is a super science, embracing interdisciplinary approaches in genomics, proteomics, and interdependent fields of biochemistry, physiology, molecular entomology, and biotechnology.

Entomology as a science of inter-depended branches like molecular entomology, insect biotechnology, has made rapid progress.

Thanks to the application of new technologies such as whole-genome sequencing,  analysis of transcriptome and proteome of insect pest to agriculture, great progress has been made in understanding the life style, reproduction, evolution and nuisance to crops caused by insect pests such as aphids, planthoppers, and whiteflies.

This book explores the ethnobiology of corals by examining the various ways in which humans, past and present, have exploited and taken care of coral and coralline habitats.

Using a series of case studies, the book demonstrates the power of dynamic analysis as applied to the fossil record.

This monograph provides a summary of the basic theory of branching processes for single-type and multi-type processes.

In this contribution, several probabilistic tools to study population dynamics are developed.

In this thesis two variants of the fast variable elimination method are developed.

This volume provides in-depth reviews of model systems that exemplify the arms race in host-pathogen interactions.

This volume analyses the evolution of humankind by combining approaches from science and the arts.

Inchworms, tiger moths, underwings, owlet moths, silkworms,sphinx moths, grass moths, and butterflies.

A proper understanding of the structural organization of the plant body is essential to any study in plant biology.

This book presents 20 selected contributions to the 18th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, which took place in September 2014 in Marseille.

Ethnobiology is a fascinating science.

This book reports significant progress of scientific research on horseshoe crabs, including aspects of evolution, genetics, ecology, population dynamics, general biology and physiology, within the recent 10 years.

This book deals with the very real possibility of earthly immortality and the human and societal implications of such immortality, including whether it is desirable.

This timely book revisits cryptic female choice in arthropods, gathering detailed contributions from around the world to address key behavioral, ecological and evolutionary questions.

This book proposes an applied epistemological framework for investigating science, social cognition and religious thinking based on inferential patterns that recur in the different domains.

With fascinating, spectacularly beautiful images, the book piques readers' curiosity about the diversity of visual organs.

This book explores the double coding property of DNA, which is manifested in the digital and analog information types as two interdependent codes.

In this book, Giovanni Bignami, the outstanding Italian scientist and astronomer, takes the reader on a journey through the "e;seven spheres"e;, from our own planet to neighboring stars.

This book explores the exciting world of theoretical biology and is divided into three sections.

Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution.

This volume is the outcome of a modern phylogenetic analysis of the grass family based on multiple sources of data, in particular molecular systematic studies resulting from a concerted effort by researchers worldwide, including the author.

This book is divided in two parts, the first of which shows how, beyond paleontology and systematics, macroevolutionary theories apply key insights from ecology and biogeography, developmental biology, biophysics, molecular phylogenetics and even the sociocultural sciences to explain evolution in deep time.

This book provides an up-to-date review of the biology of myxozoans, which represent a divergent clade of endoparasitic cnidarians.

This book "e;Biodiversity of lianas"e; under the series "e;Sustainable development and Biodiversity"e; is unique as it covers a wide array of topics in this subject covering all continents and will constitute a valuable reference material for students, researchers and forest managers who are concerned with biodiversity, forest ecology and sustainable development of forest resources.

This book covers studies on the systematics of plant taxa and will include general vegetational aspects and ecological characteristics of plant life at altitudes above 1000 m.

This book reviews the mechanisms, patterns, and processes that regulate prokaryotic diversity through different habitats in the context of evolutionary and ecological hypotheses, principles, and theories.

This book highlights the common ground between biomedicine and traditional healing.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful tool for the investigation of species-habitat relationships and the development of wildlife management and conservation programs.

Our intention with this book was to present the reader with the most accurate, significant, and up-to-date background and knowledge in the areas of ethnomedicinal and nutraceutical vegetation for the Lesser Himalayas in a comprehensive text.

In the present volume taxonomic treatments including descriptions of and keys to the families and genera for the orders Santalales and Balanophorales are offered, the former group here comprising 12 families with 162 genera and about 2100 species, and the latter with the single family Balanophoraceae composed of 16 genera and about 42 species.

This book offers a new explanation for the development of flight in mammals and offers detailed morphological descriptions of mammals with flapping flight.

This proceeding covers all the collected research data and presentations from the 8th International Symposium on the Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf.

This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values-the core beliefs that guide people's cognition and behavior-and their variation across time and space around the world.

This book includes the most essential contributions presented at the 17th Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Marseille, which took place in September 2013.

Environmental variation plays an important role in many biological and ecological dynamical systems.

The earth's biodiversity is a degree of ecosystem health which is vital to ecology and environmental sustainability.

This book focuses on morphological and anatomical strategies developed by halophytes during evolution that allow them to survive in high-salt environments.

This monograph presents new tools for modeling multiscale biological processes.

Groundbreaking research over the last 10 years has given rise to the hologenome concept of evolution.

This volume describes features of autonomy and integrates them into the recent discussion of factors in evolution.

This brief discusses factors associated with group formation, group maintenance, group population structure, and other events and processes (e.

This book summarizes the evolution of carnivorous mammals in the Cenozoic of South America.

Nonautonomous dynamics describes the qualitative behavior of evolutionary differential and difference equations, whose right-hand side is explicitly time dependent.

Recent achievements in hardware and software developments have enabled the introduction of a revolutionary technology: in-memory data management.