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Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae 1st Edition
This book assembles the best larval photographs previously published in scientific literature into one place. Many of the plates, which include color photographs and numerous scanning electron micrographs, are original. Contributed chapters and illustrative material is covered by more than 50 recognized authorities on larval development from throughout the world.
* Provides glossy photographs of all known types of marine invertebrate larvae in a single reference
* Includes juvenile forms, paralarvae, etc. of several groups with direct development
* Illustrates metamorphosis from larval to juvenile form for most groups
* Provides brief synopses of life history biology, larval development, embryology, and metamorphosis
* Provides key references to review articles and classic works
- ISBN-100123736080
- ISBN-13978-0123736086
- Edition1st
- PublisherAcademic Press
- Publication dateOctober 12, 2006
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions8 x 1.75 x 11 inches
- Print length640 pages
Editorial Reviews
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-Dr. L. v. Salvini-Plawen, Universitat Wien, Vienna, Austria, in MARINE ECOLOGY
About the Author
Mary Sewell is Professor of Biological Science at the University of Auckland. She is an authority on the larval form, physiology and ecology of echinoderms and has worked on a wide variety of projects worldwide, from the tropics to the Antarctic and from the intertidal to abyssal depths. Dr. Sewell returns as a co-editor of the second edition of Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae given her background expertise on echinoderms.
Product details
- Publisher : Academic Press; 1st edition (October 12, 2006)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 640 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0123736080
- ISBN-13 : 978-0123736086
- Item Weight : 5.16 pounds
- Dimensions : 8 x 1.75 x 11 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #7,173,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,147 in Developmental Biology (Books)
- #1,820 in Marine Biology (Books)
- #2,246 in Anatomy & Physiology (Books)
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