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It is now 17 years since the junior author's book Parasitic protozoa was first published, and 13 years since it received limited revision. The study of symbiotic protozoa has meanwhile progressed, and much of the content of the earlier book has been...

Some years ago a book reviewer, perhaps with Freudian honesty, remarked that the book in question 'filled a much needed gap in the literature'. That phrase has haunted the writing of this gap-filler and this preface may be considered an apologia. For a...

Inhibitors of cholinesterases have important applications in agricultural pest control, and in the medical treatment of myasthenia gravis and glaucoma, and the management of Alzheimer's disease. From an April 1992 conference in Eilat, Israel, 38 papers...

Understanding the functioning of ecosystems requires the understanding of the interactions between consumer species and their resources. How do these interactions affect the variations of population abundances? How do population abundances determine the...

In the limited scope of this book I wish to present a brief review of the progressive destruction of nature, particularly in the domain of animal life, and at the same time to ill- trate some of the possibilities by BIII:- Ion-.--------------, which man...

This book focuses on those virus families that are found primarily or exclusively in insects, covering all major families of insect-selective viruses except for the baculoviruses which were described in a previous volume of "The Viruses" series...

First printed in 1983, this book concerns the comparative physiological adaptations of vertebrate animals, especially mammals, to cessation of breathing. These adaptations were originally identified in species living in aquatic habitats. The argument is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780792314592Author L. WatlingFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic Publishers

This text contains a collection of papers dealing with various aspects of the biology and aquaculture of the large branchiopod crustacea - the Anostraca, Conchostraca, and Notostraca. Included are many of the papers presented at the Second International...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674436213Author William C StebbinsFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 431g

It is now more than half a century since animal cells first came into regular use in the laboratory. Instances of laboratory acquired infection and con tamination of therapeutic products, derived from the use of animal cell cultures are rare. The use of...

This text is an introduction to the interface between the actin cytoskeleton and the myriad of issues fundamental to the understanding of the nervous system. It covers the neurobiology of actin ranging from basic cellular organization and function to the...

The field of DNA repair is vast and advancing rapidly. Recent investigations have begun to focus on the involvement of chromatin in the repair of broken DNA. Although I have no doubt that many breakthroughs in our understanding of chromatin, chromatin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674180833Author Everett MendelsohnFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 490g

Approximately 99.9% of vertebrate species reproduce sexually. The exceptional 0.1% reproduce via asexual or clonal means, which vary wildly and are fascinating in their own right. In this book, John C. Avise describes the genetics, ecology, natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674498259Author Peter W HochachkaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Jellyfish, a group that includes scyphomedusae, hydromedusae, siphonophores and ctenophores, are important zooplankton predators throughout the world's estuaries and oceans. These beautiful creatures have come to public attention as featured exhibits in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788425332Author Barbara Stickley SourFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 395g

The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of com prehensive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modem auditory research. It is aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research including advanced graduate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274138Author Manabu FukumotoFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Myofibrillogenesis has been studied extensively over the last 100 years. Until recently, we have not had a comprehensive understanding of this fundamental process. The emergence of new technologies in molecular and cellular biology, combined with...

The editors of this volume argue that future research into complex animal societies and intelligence will change the perception of animals as gene machines, programmed to act in particular ways and perhaps elevate them to a status much closer to our own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013289033Author Awh BatesFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

For more than 30 years, the visual cortex has been the source of new theories and ideas about how the brain processes information. The visual cortex is easily accessible through a variety of recording and imagining techniques and allows mapping of high...

Aquatic organisms swim in a variety of ways, from jet propulsion to ciliary action: they swim at a wide range of speeds and span a vast size range, from bacteria to protists, to the largest whales. One of the most fascinating aspects of aquatic...

This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to know what role mathematics can play in attempting to comprehend the dynamics of the human brain. It also aims to serve as a general introduction to neuromathematics. The book gives the reader a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898753462Author Jean-Henri FabreFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780216922464Author John M. SuddFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic Publishers GroupWeight(grams) 630g

The present edition may be regarded as a descendant, much changed and greatly enlarged, of the late Dr A. D. Imms' Outlines of Entomology, first published in 1942. This went through three further editions without much change, but after the death of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530000015Author William KernFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 739g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530000008Author William KernFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 458g

Molecular and Cell Biology of Human Diseases reviews the status of research on a range of sexually transmitted diseases whose incidence has paralleled the increase in HIV infection and examines the ways in which new methods are influencing current...

This book is about the microbial species that inhabit the human body, and the consequences of the intimate relationships that we share with them. It is intended that the book will provide an introduction to the normal microflora for those studying...

It is a common statement that because of its simplicity the bacterial cell makes an ideal model for the study of a wide variety of biological systems and phenomena. While no-one would dispute that much of our under standing of biological function derives...

This book describes the basic electrical properties of a variety of mammalian tissues in scientific terms that even a student who has had little formal training in the physics of electricity should find understandable.Book InformationISBN...

Our understanding of the mechanisms regulating gene expression, which determine the patterns of growth and development in all living organisms, ultimately involves the elucidation of the detailed and dy namic interactions of proteins with nucleic acids...

The proliferation of scientific texts and their rapidly escalating costs demands of an author some justification for the production of yet another specialised volume; particularly one that treats of a relatively obscure group of animal- the...

This little book was assembled from the authors' lectures to medical students and was originally published as one volume in the series Human Physiology, edited by O. H. Gauer, K. Kramer, and R. Jung. The editors intended that each volume in this series...

This book arrays recent research on the neural and behavioral lateralization of the brain relying heavily on animal modes. The authors employ the comparative method to enhance our understanding of behavior, specifically through hand use and...

This book provides a clear and concise account of the physiology and form of the fish circulatory system. Emphasis is primarily placed on the function of the system although details of structure have been included. Following some revisionary ideas on...