The Biology of Pelagic Tunicates
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-854024-3 (ISBN)
Pelagic tunicates are fascinating for their beauty, remarkable in most cases for their curious and even bizarre life cycles, and often notable for extraordinarily rapid growth. Furthermore, in recent years their major importance in the economy of the sea has been recognized.
Although the now outdated encyclopaedic texts of the 1930s dealt with pelagic tunicates, the results of much subsequent physiological and ecological work have only appeared in scattered articles. This book is unique in giving a modern account of the biology of pelagic tunicates, with much new and unpublished information. Different chapters treat such topics as the ecological impact of salp blooms, locomotion by jet propulsion, the affinities of different groups, and the abundance and distribution of each group. Updated classification and identification keys to every pelagic tunicate now known are included.
The Biology of Pelagic Tunicates will be useful to all plankton workers, and may perhaps stimulate ecologists, physiologists, and geneticists to begin work on a somewhat neglected group of animals that offer some unusual advantages for different kinds of study.
Introduction ; Chapter 1 - Anatomy of Thaliacea ; Chapter 2 - Anatomy of Appendicularia ; Chapter 3 - Locomotion, locomotor muscles and buoyancy ; Chapter 4 - Nervous system, sense organs and excitable epithelia ; Chapter 5 - Feeding and energetics of Thaliaceans ; Chapter 6 - The Appendicularian house ; Chapter 7 - Salp and pyrosomid blooms and their importance in biogeochemical cycles ; Chapter 8 - Feeding and metabolism of appendicularians ; Chapter 9 - Life history of the appendicularians ; Chapter 10 - The role of appendicularia in marine food webs ; Chapter 11 - The parasites and predators of Thaliacea ; Chapter 12 - Bioluminescence in the Appendicularia ; Chapter 13 - The cladistic biogeography of salps and pyrosomas ; Chapter 14 - Appendicularian distribution and zoogeography ; Chapter 15 - Molecular phylogeny of tunicates. A preliminary study using 28 Sribosomal RNA partial sequences: implications in terms of evolution and ecology ; Chapter 16 - The relationships and systematics of the Thaliacea, with keys for identification ; Chapter 17 - The classification of Appendicularia ; References ; Taxonomic Index ; Subject Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.1.1998 |
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| Zusatzinfo | frontispiece, numerous halftones and line figures, tables |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 199 x 255 mm |
| Gewicht | 882 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Limnologie / Meeresbiologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-854024-8 / 0198540248 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-854024-3 / 9780198540243 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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