Evolution

In the five years since the publication of Molecular Systematics of Plants, the field of molecular systematics has advanced at an astonishing pace.

There are over a million different species of insects, and individually they 8 outnumber humans by more than 10 to 1.

Comparative Vertebrate Reproduction is the only comprehensive textbook covering major topics in the reproductive biology of vertebrates, from sexuality and gametogenesis to reproductive ecology and life history tactics.

Principles of Insect Pathology, a text written from a pathological viewpoint, is intended for graduate-level students and researchers with a limited background in microbiology and in insect diseases.

Aquaculture is now recognized as a viable and profitable enterprise worldwide.

In Controversy, Trevor Palmer fully documents how traditional gradualistic views of biological and geographic evolution are giving way to a catastrophism that credits cataclysmic events, such as meteorite impacts, for the rapid bursts and abrupt transitions observed in the fossil record.

Relying on the latest analytical techniques, this all-embracing new reference offers comprehensive coverage of the development, evolution, and morphology of both fossil and living cephalopods.

For 31 years, the North American Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation Conference (for- merly Rhizobium Conference) has been a forum for scientists and graduate students to discuss their research advances, extending from basic aspects to agricultural appli- cations, and dealing with topics ranging from bacterial genetics and metabolism to plant genetics and physiology.

The present work is an extension of my doctoral thesis done at Stanford in the early 1970s.

The International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (lSOTT) held its 26th annual meeting from August 23-26, 1998, and met for the second time in Budapest.

Over the course of the past decade, there has been an enormous augmentation in the amount of information available on the lemurs of Madagascar.

Aquaculture is rapidly becoming a major source of fish protein used to meet the nutritional needs of humans.

After volume 33, this book series was replaced by the journal "e;Evolutionary Biology.

This book is intended as a text for a first course on creating and analyzing computer simulation models of biological systems.

The impetus for this book arose out of my previous book, The Evolution of Life Histories (Roff, 1992).

Recent work in quantitative biology has shown theoretically why Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection does not preclude genetic influences on fertility, sexuality, and related processes.

The present work is the second in a series constituting an extension of my doctoral thesis done at Stanford in the early 1970s.

One of the major themes of human population genetics is assaying genetic variation in human populations.

The fourth Conference on the Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders was held at "e;The Mountain,"e; in Highlands, North Carolina on June 12-14, 1998.

Nations around the world are experiencing a spectacular increase in longevity.

This volume brings together the disciplines of plant and animal genome research, and serves as an opportunity for scientists from both fields to compare results, problems and prospects.

Plant based biotechnology has come to represent a means of mitigating the problems of global food security in the twenty-first century.

Biogeography relates the evolution of the Earth's biota to major episodes in the Earth's history such as climatic changes and plate tectonic events.

Nontarget Effects of Biological Control is the first book of its kind.

I have long been awe-struck by authors' claims that their books had been in the making for 5, or 10, or even 15 years.

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After volume 33, this book series was replaced by the journal "e;Evolutionary Biology.

This book really began in 1980 with our first microcomputer, an Apple II +.

This book is a collection of original research papers given at a symposium entitled "e;Sensory Systems and Behavior of Aquatic Mammals"e;, hosted by the USSR Academy of Sciences.

After volume 33, this book series was replaced by the journal "e;Evolutionary Biology.

The application of molecular techniques is rapidly transforming the study of plant systematics.

Insect Learning is a comprehensive review of a new field.

Origins of Plastids looks at symbiosis and symbiogenesis as a mechanism of evolution.

As the human population increases and nations become more industrialized, the habitat and water quality required for the survival of fish continues to decline.

This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO ARW on 'Biological Pattern Formation' held at Merton College, University of Oxford, on 27-31 August, 1992.

This volume is the twenty-ninth in this series, which includes twenty-eight numbered volumes and one unnumbered supplement.

The application of computational methods to solve scientific and pratical problems in genome research created a new interdisciplinary area that transcends boundaries traditionally separating genetics, biology, mathematics, physics, and computer science.

Planthoppers include some of the most devastating pests of major agricultural crops throughout the world.

Many mites possess extremely intricate life styles in close association with plant and animal hosts.

All organisms--from the AIDS virus, to bacteria, to fish, to humans--must evolve to survive.

Molecular approaches have opened new windows on a host of ecological and evolutionary disciplines, ranging from population genetics and behavioral ecology to conservation biology and systematics.

In Volume 12, eminent international ornithologists further elucidate endocrinological correlates of mating strategies and hormones and reproductive behavior; assess the value of the 'brood reduction hypothesis' in explaining 'the paradox of hatching asynchrony'; and explore the validity and sensitivity of growth bands in feathers as an indication of nutritional condition and the use of feather banding in studying growth.

Based on the author's more than 40 years experience, Bacterial Growth and Form examines such important questions as what bacteria were, what they are, and what they do.

The only book to deal comprehensively with insect feeding was published by C.

I was asked to introduce this volume by examining "e;why a knowledge of ecosys- tem functioning can contribute to understanding species activities, dynamics, and assemblages.

This book results from a summer school held at Cornell University in 1992.

During the past decade, the study of the chemical structures used by insects has advanced from a subject that could be reviewed in a single volume to a vastly more advanced level.