Keywords:
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This 3-volume set provides informative reviews on the physiology of sponges, cnidarians, round and flat worms, annelids, echinoderms, and crustaceans. Volume 1 looks at non-bilaterians (sponges, cnidarians, placozoans).
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (516 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781000896985
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=31011587
DDC:
592
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- About the Editors -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Physiology of Reproduction in Porifera -- Chapter 2: The Physiology of Sponge Behavior -- Chapter 3: Sponge Symbiosis: Microbes Make an Essential Part of What It Means to Be a Sponge -- Chapter 4: Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycling Through Marine Sponges: Physiology, Cytology, Genomics, and Ecological Implications -- Chapter 5: Nerve Nets and Centralized Nervous Systems in Cnidarians -- Chapter 6: Neuropeptides as Potentiators of Coral Polyp Contraction -- Chapter 7: Coral Calcification at the Cellular Scale: Insight Through the 'Window' of the Growing Edge -- Chapter 8: The Placozoa: General Biology, Genomics, Cell Signaling, and Behavior -- Index.
