Zoology and animal sciences Books

The Pine-Needle Basket Book by Mary Jane McAfee is a comprehensive guide to creating beautiful and functional baskets using pine needles. The book includes detailed instructions and illustrations for a variety of basket-making techniques, including...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Insects Injurious To The Household And Annoying To Man is a comprehensive guide to identifying and controlling common household pests. Written by Glenn W. Herrick, an entomologist with decades of experience, the book covers a wide range of insects that...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

""Anecdotes of the Habits and Instincts of Animals"" is a book written by Mrs. R. Lee that provides a collection of interesting and amusing stories about the behavior of various animals. The book covers a wide range of creatures, from domesticated pets...

""How To Know The Shore Birds, Limicolae, Of North America, South Of Greenland And Alaska, All The Species Being Grouped According To Size And Color"" is a comprehensive guidebook written by Charles B. Cory. The book is a detailed study of the shore...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This book contains the proceedings of the "First International Symposium on Insect Pheromones," which was held at Wageningen, The Netherlands, from March 6 to March 11, 1994. Eighty participants from 17 countries attended the...

The evolutionary biology of protozoa is a field in which exciting changes are taking place. Relationships between different groups of protozoa are undergoing extensive review and the revised views will have significant...

Many of the processes influencing recruitment to an adult fish population or entry into a fishery occur very early in life. The variations in life histories and behaviours of young fish and the selective processes operating...

Advances in biochemical techniques are revolutionizing the study of invertebrate ecology. Their application to pest problems is generating detailed information on the population genetics of pests, pest-predator relationships...

Humans have always been fascinated by marine life, from extremely small diatoms to the largest mammal that inhabits our planet, the blue whale. However, studying marine life in the ocean is an extremely difficult propo- tion...

This book provides a compilation of the most up-to-date literature on the topic of immediate early genes (IEGs). It reviews and details experiments and theories that challenge the reader to expand their view on how IEG research...

This book is a compendium of the latest research on acoustic communication in these highly vocal vertebrates. The chapters are written by experts currently investigating the physiology and behavior of amphibians, in the...

The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of compreh- sive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory - search. The volumes are aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing...

Arma virumque cano, Trojae qui primus ab oris Italiamfato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora. This is the beginning of Ovid's story about Odysseus leaving Trojae to find his way home. I here tell about my own Odysee-like ex-...

The function of vertebrate hearing is served by a surprising variety of sensory structures in the different groups of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. This book discusses the origin, specialization, and...

The auditory system has a remarkable ability to adjust to an ever-changing environment. The six review chapters that comprise Plasticity of the Central Auditory System cover a spectrum of issues concerning this ability to...

A presentation of all aspects of neural crest cell origins (embryological and evolutionary) development and evolution; neural crest cell behavior (migration) and anomalies (neurocristopathies and birth defects) that arise from...

Several books chronicle attempts, most of them during the last 40 years, to teach animals to communicate with people in a human-designed language. These books have typically treated only one or two species, or even one or a few...

Section I. Human Studies.- Epidemiology of Hypospadias.- Endocrine Evaluation of Hypospadias.- Endocrine Abnormalities in Boys with Hypospadias.- Genetic and Clinical Studies on Hypospadias.- Section II. Mechanism of Genital Development.- Development of...

It has been twelve years since a work relating to the long-tailed African monkeys known as the guenons has been published and fifteen years have passed since the last major scientific symposium was held that was solely...

It is generally accepted that the recent progress in molecular and cellular biology would not have been possible without an understanding of the mechanisms and signaling pathways of communication inside the cell and between...

Preface. Relationship between RAS pathways and cell cycle control; M.E. Ewen. Cell-Anchorage, cell cytoskeleton, and Rho-GTPase family in regulation of cell cycle progression; I. Tatsuno, et al. The Continuum model and G1-control of the mammalian...

This book contains the proceedings of the first meeting on invertebrate immunity ever sponsored as a summer research conference by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). The conference was held...

Here is the first effort in a single volume to cover all of the integrative functions of calcium signalling - how changes in intracellular calcium coordinate a variety of coherent cellular responses. Written by a team of...

The study of primate locomotion is a unique discipline that by its nature is interdis­ ciplinary, drawing on and integrating research from ethology, ecology, comparative anat­ omy, physiology, biomechanics, paleontology, etc...

Innate Defense Mechanisms: Development of Self-Recognition Systems in Natural Killer Cells; P.V. Sivakumar, et al. Activating and Inhibitory NK Cell Receptors; L.L. Lanier. Regulation of Immune Responses by Inhibitory Receptors; E.O. Long. Effector...

Entomopoxviruses; L.A. King, et al. Invertebrate Iridescent Viruses; T. Williams. Nudiviruses; J.P. Burand. The Ascoviruses; L.K. Miller. Polydnaviruses; B.A. Webb. Biological and Molecular Properties of Densoviruses and Their Use in Protein...

Sodium (Na+) Transport and Fluid Clearance Across the Normal and Injured Lungs: Regulation of the Sodium Pump in Hyperoxic Lung Injury; D.H. Ingbar, et al. Lung Edema Clearance During Hyperoxic Lung Injury; J.I. Sznajder, K.M. Ridge. Role of the...

Molecular Signalling: Ca2+-Signaling in Cardiac Myocytes: Evidence from Evolutionary and Transgenic Models; M. Morad, Y.J. Suzuki. Diastolic Viscoelastic Properties of Rat Cardiac Muscle; Involvement of Ca2+; B.D.M.Y. Stuyvers, et al. The Contractile...

Glycobiology: The Basics: Novel Pathways in Complex-Type Oligosaccharide Synthesis: New Vistas Opened by Studies in Invertebrates; D.H. Van den Eijnden, et al. Defective Glycosyltransferases Are Not Good for Your Health; H. Schachter, et al. Probing...

Following the two meetings on Lactoferrin Structure and Function that were held in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1993 and 1995, the Third International Conference on Lactoferrin Structure and Function was held in Le Touquet, France, and...

PCR Quantification and Technical Aspects: Multiple Competitors for Single-Tube Quantification of HIV1 DNA; T. Vener, et al. Quantitation of p53 Tumor Suppressor Gene Copy Number in Tumor DNA Samples by Competitive PCR in an ELISA-Format; M. Hahn, et...

Introduction: Serpins: From the Way It Was to the Way It Is; J. Travis. Serpins: A Mechanistic Class of Their Own; S.R. Stone, et al. Coagulation: Antithrombin-A Bloody Important Serpin; I. Björk, S.T. Olson. Heparin Cofactor II; D.M. Tollefsen...

Introduction. Viral Infections. Duck Plague. Avian Influenza, Newcastle Disease, and Other Paramyxoviruses. Other Viruses. Bacterial Infections. Avian Cholera. Other Bacteria, Mycoplasmas, and Chlamydiae. Fungal Infections. Fungal Diseases. Parasitic...

Introduction. Mono(ADP-ribosyl)Transferases and Related Enzymes: Emerging Gene Families; F. Koch-Nolte, F. Haag. Mono-ADP-ribosylation in Prokaryotes. Crystal Structure of Diphtheria Toxin Bound to Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide; C.E. Bell, D...

Evaluating the Statistical Significance of Multiple Distinct Local Alignments; S.F. Altscul. Hidden Markov Models for Human Genes: Periodic Patterns in Exon Sequence; S. Brunak. Identification of Muscle-Specific Transcriptional Regulatory Regions; J...

Historical Perspectives. Morphology of Chemoreceptors. Re-Examination of the Carotid body Ultrastructure with Paying Attention to the Intercellular Membrane Apposition; H. Kondo, H. Iwasa. Biochemistry of Chemoreceptor Mechanisms. Developmental...