Annelids in Modern Biology

Annelids in Modern Biology book cover

Annelids in Modern Biology

Author(s): Daniel H. Shain (Author)

  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Publication Date: 29 April 2009
  • Edition: 1st
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 376 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0470344210
  • ISBN-13: 9780470344217

Book Description

Annelids offer a diversity of experimentally accessible features making them a rich experimental subject across the biological sciences, including evolutionary development, neurosciences and stem cell research. 

This volume introduces the Annelids and their utility in evolutionary developmental biology, neurobiology, and environmental/ecological studies, including extreme environments. The book demonstrates the variety of fields in which Annelids are already proving to be a useful experimental system. Describing the utility of Annelids as a research model, this book is an invaluable resource for all researchers in the field.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“In all, this guide will have a useful place on the shelf of professional botanists, school teachers, and interested amateurs whose botanical range includes urban landscapes”. (The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1 December 2010)

From the Inside Flap

The only resource available on the utility of annelids as a research model

Annelids (segmented worms) are among the most ecologically diverse group of animals, occupying habitats ranging from hydrothermal vents at the ocean floor to glaciers in Alaska. Such diversity, coupled with a relatively simple body plan and broad experimental accessibility, makes them a subject of considerable scientific interest.

This book explores annelids as rich experimental subjects and demonstrates their utility as an experimental system across the biological sciences, including evolutionary development, neuroscience, and stem cell research. It covers:

  • Annelids as model systems in biology
  • Evolution and development
  • Neurobiology and regeneration
  • Environmental and ecological studies
  • Extreme environments and biological novelties

Annelids in Modern Biology is an indispensable resource for experimental biologists, graduate students, and researchers in evolutionary developmental biology, cell and molecular biology, neurobiology, stem cell genetics, and ecology and evolution.

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