Zoology: invertebrates

Polycomb Group Proteins is a comprehensive volume detailing the mechanisms that are key to the management of genome function in many different contexts, from embryonic stem cells to terminal differentiation.

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This book discusses methods which might appropriately be employed under various circumstances.

The book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective.

This fully revised and updated second edition of Insect Pests of Potato now includes an opening section with a basic overview of agronomic and economic issues as they relate to potato production.

There are about 10 quintillion insects in the world divided into more than one million known species, and some scientists believe there may be more than 30 million species.

Insects engage in intimate associations with microbial symbionts that colonize their digestive systems or internal cells and tissues.

House Dust Mites: Natural History, Control, and Research Techniques presents a complete synthesis of biological information on dust mites from both an ecological and evolutionary perspective.

The simplicity and lack of redundancy in their regulatory genes have made ascidians one of the most useful species in studying developmental genomics.

A book of national and international importance, Fruit Fly Pests is an exhaustive compendium of information (with data provided by more than 100 contributors) that will appeal to a wide variety of readers.

With few exceptions, insects are perceived in industrialized countries as undesirable pests.

Arthropods are the most numerous and diverse group of animals and studying them requires the use of specialized equipment and specific procedures.

The first comprehensive reference to invertebrate histology Invertebrate Histology is a groundbreaking text that offers a comprehensive review of histology in invertebrates.

This book is written to serve as a general reference for biologists and resource managers with relatively little statistical training.

The present work deals with the diseases of nematodes.

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Come on an action-packed adventure with an amazing mob of animal eco-warriors as they use their special talents to help solve our planet's environmental problems!

The Physiology of Insecta, Second Edition, Volume VI, is part of a multivolume treatise that brings together the known facts, the controversial material, as well as the many unresolved and unsettled problems of insect physiology.

This book provides architects, engineers, builders, foresters, members of the pest control and timber industries, and the general public with a ready source of reference to the more important wood borers and termites encountered in Australia.

Beautifully illustrated complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships and 400 million years of fossils.

A comprehensive, full-colour work providing insights into recent advances in the ecological understanding of ladybirds.

By joining phylogenetics and evolutionary ecology, this book explores the patterns of parasite diversity while revealing diversification processes.

This book provides an integrated description of methods used to rear vectors of human, higher animal, and plant pathogens in the laboratory.

Biology of Ticks is the most comprehensive work on tick biology and tick-borne diseases.

In this fascinating book, Graham Matthews takes the reader through the history of the development and use of chemicals for control of pests, weeds, and vectors of disease and then discusses their future.

Understanding biotic stress and plant yield allows for the practical development of economic decision making, an instrumental part of Integrated Pest Management.

The nervous system is particularly fascinating for many biologists because it controls animal characteristics such as movement, behavior, and coordinated thinking.

Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 1982, investigation into the pathology of honey bees has progressed considerably.

In all, 1550 species of whiteflies have been identified.

This lavishly illustrated book examines the distribution, ecology, conservation status, and biogeography of 176 species of dragonflies in the southern plains of the United States, where twelve ecoregions converge.

This book comprehensively reviews current pest management practices and explores novel integrated pest management strategies in Brassica oilseed crops.

This section of the Handbook of Zoology is intended as a comprehensive and exhaustive account of the biology of the taxa Gastrotricha, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Gnathostomulida, Micrognathozoa, Rotifera, Seisonida and Acanthocephala, covering all relevant topics such as morphology, ecology, phylogeny and diversity.

This fascinating title has been carefully organised to meet the long-felt needs of increasingly large number of those who deals with different aspects of Entomology.

Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fourth Edition, follows a hierarchical organization that begins with relatively easy-to-understand chapters on adaptive responses of insect populations to various environmental changes, disturbances, and anthropogenic activities, how insects find food and habitat resources, and how insects allocate available energy and nutrients.

In this revision of the calanoid copepod family Heterorhabdidae, 7 genera and 59 species are recognized, and 25 species are described as new.

This title was originally published in 1975.

The first comprehensive volume exclusively on marine cone snails, this book provides descriptions of over 100 species of hazardous marine snails along with their biological and ecological characteristics; the characteristics of conotoxins; information on cone snail injuries and their treatment along with prevention measures; and the therapeutic and medicinal value of conotoxins, including as a powerful nonaddictive painkiller, an epilepsy drug, and more.

Katydids are among the most commonly seen Australian insects.

Over the past 25 years insect pharmacology has grown from a fledgling subject to one that occupies a major field of science.

A marvelously illustrated natural history of the world's mollusksMollusks are invertebrate animals with a remarkable natural history and a rich fossil record, and their shells are prized for their breathtaking variety and exquisite beauty.

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Caddisflies are one of the most diverse groups of organisms living in freshwater habitats, and their larvae are involved in energy transfer at several levels within these communities.

Under continual attack from both microbial pathogens and multicellular parasites, insects must cope with immune challenges every day of their lives.

This latest volume in this series contains articles on a variety of insect physiological topics from the nervous system to the cuticle and circulatory system.

Water mites are a dominant feature of the fauna of all freshwater ecosystems.

Provides a listing of all those after whom damselflies and dragonflies have been named.

Consolidating and expanding current, fundamental notions of virology and animal cell cultivation, this practical reference examines the development of insect cell culture techniques for the production of recombinant proteins and insect pathogenic viruses.

Proceedings of the CEC/IOBC Expert's Group Meeting, Pennes, France, November 1985.

An increasing number of Australians want to be assured that the food and fibre being produced on this continent have been grown and harvested in an ecologically sustainable way.