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Describes the dynamics of evolutionary change at the molecular level, the driving forces behind the evolutionary process and the effects of molecular mechanisms on the structure of genes and genomes. This book includes molecular data as well as methodological tools for comparative and phylogenetic analyses of data from an evolutionary perspective.
Surveys the thirty-four phyla of animal invertebrates, describing the organic systems, body plans, and phylogeny of the organisms.
Phylogenies, or evolutionary trees, are the basic structures necessary to think about and analyze differences between species. Statistical, computational, and algorithmic work in this field has been ongoing for four decades now, and there have been great advances in understanding. Yet no book has summarized this work. Inferring Phylogenies does just that in a single, compact volume. Phylogenies are inferred with various kinds of data. This book concentrates on some of the central ones: discretely coded characters, molecular sequences, gene frequencies, and quantitative traits. Also covered are restriction sites, RAPDs, and microsatellites.
"Plant Physiology and Development incorporates the latest advances in plant biology, making it the most authoritative and widely used upper-division plant biology textbook. Up-to-date, comprehensive, and meticulously illustrated, the improved integration of developmental material throughout the text ensures that Plant Physiology and Development provides the best educational foundation possible for the next generation of plant biologists"--
Special features of this second edition are: complete coverage of all aspects of microbiology; a newly updated and expanded treatment of microbial physiology and metabolism; a completely new approach to presenting the biology of eukaryotic microorganisms; updated information on genetics and genomics; a more extensive, phylogenetic approach to microbial diversity; a revised up-to-date section on microbial structure and function that reflects current concepts and techniques; expanded treatment of microbial diseases; recent information about the taxonomy, evolution, and speciation of Bacteria and Archaea; a new section on energetics covering both chemical and light energy conservation; expanded and updated treatment of immunology; chapters on the popular area of beneficial symbioses and on human host-microbe interactions; separate chapters on industrial microbiology and applied and environmental microbiology.
From Neuron to Brain, Fourth Edition describes how nerve cells go about their business of transmitting signals, how the signals are put together, and how, out of this integration, higher functions emerge. The emphasis, as before, is on experiments, and on the way they are carried out. Elements of format and presentation have been changed -- more headings have been introduced, the paragraphs are shorter, and the illustrations, now in full color, have been clarified. Intended for use in upper-level undergraduate, graduate, psychology, and medical school neuroscience courses, this book will be of interest to anyone who is curious about the workings of the nervous system.