Zoology and animal sciences

Understanding the molecular processes by which ionic channels are regulated is central to the understanding of cellular function.

Peritrophic membranes are secretion products of the midgut.

Clonal forestry has come of age.

In retrospect, the range of topics covered in this monograph, although forming a coherent ensemble, is so extensive that a detailed discussion could easily extend to three or four times the current length.

Antarctic Ecosystems comprises 55 papers presented at the Fifth Symposium on Antarctic Biology held under the auspices of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) in Hobart, Australia, 29 August - 3 September, 1988.

Some fishes test their environment by generating electric fields outside their bodies (man's first contact with electricity).

Rice is the most important cereal crop which feeds more than half the population of the world.

The majority of scientists interested in fertilization and early developmental processes will undoubtably have encountered the works of Alberto Monroy at some time in their careers.

Taxonomy is fundamental to understanding the variety of lifeforms, and exciting expansions in molecular biology are re-volutionising the obtained data.

This book reviews the respiratory function of vertebrate red cells.

It has been great fun to write this book, even though it has taken longer than planned, and occasionally been exasperating.

Food webs hold a central place in ecology.

Attention to viral infections and pathology previously focussed on diseases of economically important fish.

As far as we are aware, this is the first attempt to cover the com- parative physiology of the pancreatic islets in a monograph.

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Interest in comparative acid-base physiology has considerably grown during last decades even in the absence of major technical or conceptual advances.

The brain of an echo locating bat is devoted, in large part, to analyzing sound and conducting behavior in a world of sounds and echoes.

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Reptiles and birds have highly diverse hearing organs.

This book is not a conventional review of diving physiology.

This volume emphasizes the comparative approach to under- standing vertebrate renal function.

In addition to the more or less static properties of the environ- ment, plants and animals must cope with its temporal variations.

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An invitation from the Editors to contribute to 'Studies of Brain Functions' with a monograph on the parietal lobe of- fers me an opportunity to present in a concentrated form my studies on this part of the brain from a period of some- what over a decade.

The "e;functional"e; in the title of this book not only reflects my personal bias about neuroanatomy in brain research, it is also the gist of many chapters which describe sophisticated ways to resolve structures and interpret them as dynamic entities.

Chance Favors Only the Prepared Mind How does a scientist go about the task of pushing back the curtains of the unknown?

The intention of this book is to offer a comprehensive description and discussion of autonomic nerve function in the vertebrates from several points of view.

This is a timely opus.

Studies of chemical recognition in biology were initiated about half a century ago with the flrst kinetic data obtained on enzyme catalysis and inhibition.

Since the Russian edition of this book was published in 1975 many new research works have appeared which have made necessary some additions for the English edition, to reflect progress in molecular developmental genetics.

The brain functions like a computer composed of subsystems which in- teract in a hierarchical manner.

Fish are extremely successful vertebrates.

Writers on arthropod water relationships range from bio- physicists and biochemists to population ecologists-a fact that gives cause to wonder whether the field is already too heterogeneous to be written about in a single book by a single author.

The invitation to contribute a volume to the series Studies in Brain Func- tion offers me a welcome opportunity for a comprehensive presentation of my research on the eye movements of the rabbit, and for a review of the older results in the perspectives offered by the progress of my own work, but even more of the field in general.

Predation is an ecological factor of almost universal importance for the biol- ogist who aims at an understanding of the habits and structures of animals.

Mention the words 'arthropod cuticle' to most biologists and they usually provoke a glazed expression.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

As the title indicates, the theme of this book is the functions of biochromes in animals.

Due to sensitive molecular biological techniques, our understanding of chromosomal aberrations is steadily increasing.

Presented here is an analysis of plant development and plant metabolism using the tools of genetics and molecular biology, such as mutant analysis, mutation tagging, mapping using polymorphic characters and basic molecular biology techniques.

The studies described here were carried out in the Neuroregul- ation Group, Department of Physiology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

The cambium has been variously defined as follows: "e;The actively dividing layer of cells that lies between, and gives rise to, secondary xylem and phloem (vascular cambium)"e; (IAWA 1964); "e;A meristem with products of periclinal divisions commonly contributed in two directions and arranged in radial files.

Ecology is characterized by a rapidly growing complexity and diversity of facts, aspects, examples, and observations.

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Reviewed here is the current state of knowledge concerning the relationship between global change and biodiversity of temperate ecosystems.

The research field of somatosensory processing in mammals has experienced revolutionary changes in recent years.

ADVANCES IN COMPARATIVE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY helpsbiologists, physiologists, and biochemists keep track of theextensive literature in thefield.

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