Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical senses
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Chemoreception Abstracts
Author: Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals
Author: Jelle 1987Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461237149
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
This volume constitutes a series of invited chapters based on presentations given at an International Conference on the Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals held June 24-28, 1985 at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida. The immediate purpose of the conference was to spark an exchange of ideas, concepts, and techniques among investigators concerned with the different sensory modalities employed by a wide variety of animal species in extracting information from the aquatic environment. By necessity, most investigators of sensory biology are specialists in one sensory system: different stimulus modalities require different methods of stimulus control and, generally, different animal models. Yet, it is clear that all sensory systems have principles in common, such as stimulus filtering by peripheral structures, tuning of receptor cells, signal-to-noise ratios, adaption and disadaptation, and effective dynamic range. Other features, such as hormonal and efferent neural control, circadian reorganization, and receptor recycling are known in some and not in other senses. The conference afforded an increased awareness of new discoveries in other sensory systems that has effectively inspired a fresh look by the various participants at their own area of specialization to see whether or not similar principles apply. This inspiration was found not only in theoretical issues, but equally in techniques and methods of approach. The myopy of sensory specialization was broken in one unexpected way by showing limitations of individual sense organs and their integration within each organism. For instance, studying vision, one generally chooses a visual animal as a model.
Biology of the Land Crabs
Author: Warren W. BurggrenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521306904
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Interest in land crabs has burgeoned as biologists have increasingly focused on the evolution of terrestriality. Before the publication of this volume in 1988, there had been no single comprehensive source of information to serve biologists interested in the diverse aspects of terrestrial decapod crustacean. Biology of the Land Crabs was the first synthesis of recent and long-established findings on brachyuran and anomuran crustaceans that have evolved varying degrees of adaptation for life on land. Chapters by leading researchers take a coordinated evolutionary and comparative approach to systematics and evolution, ecology, behaviour, reproduction, growth and molting, ion and water balance, respiration and circulation, and energetics and locomotion. Each discusses how terrestrial species have become adapted from ancestral freshwater or marine forms. With its extensive bibliography and comprehensive index, including the natural history of nearly eighty species of brachyuran and anomuran crabs, Biology of the Land Crabs will continue to be an invaluable reference for researchers and advanced students.
Functional Morphology of Feeding and Grooming in Crustacea
Author: Bruce E. FelgenhauerPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000162508
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Abetted by recent technological advances in scanning and transmission electron microscopy, as well as new preparative methods, these contributions examine crustacean anatomy, demonstrating (or at least inferring) the functions of morphological features. In addition to feeding and grooming, they also
Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals
Author: Jelle AtemaPublisher: Springer New York
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Animal Behavior Abstracts
Author: Behavioural Biology Abstracts
Author: Animal Behaviour Abstracts
Author: The Crustacean Nutrition Newsletter
Author: The Biological Bulletin
Author: Frank Rattray LilliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Vols. 17, 21-105 contain Annual reports of the Marine Biological Laboratory for 1907/08-1952.