Animal Evolution is a complete analysis of the evolutionary interrelationships and myriad diversity of the animal kingdom. This new edition brings the subject fully up to date, especially in light of the latest advances in moleculartechniques. It also includes new chapters as the result of new systematic understanding. Animal Evolution provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary interrelationships and myriad diversity of the Animal Kingdom. It reviewsthe classical, morphological information from structure and embryology, as well as the new data gained from studies using immune stainings of nerves and muscles and blastomere markings which makes it possible to follow the fate of single blastomeres all the way to early organogenesis. Until recently, the information from analysesof gene sequences has tended to produce myriads of quite diverging trees. However, the latest generation of molecular methods, using many genes, expressed sequence tags, and even whole genomes, has brought a new stability to the field. For the first time this book brings together the information from thesevaried fields, and demonstrates that it is indeed now possible to build a phylogenetic tree from a combination of both morphology and gene sequences.This thoroughly revised third edition of Animal Evolution brings the subject fully up to date, especially in light of the latest advances in molecular techniques. The book is generously illustrated throughout with finely detailed line drawings and clear diagrams, many of them new. INDICE: Introduction ANIMALIA Prelude: Phylum Choanoflagellata Early animal radiation Phylum Silicea EURADICULATA Phylum Calcarea PROEPITHELIOZOA PhylumHomoscleromorpha EUMETAZOA (GASTRAEOZOA) Phylum Placozoa NEURALIA Phylum Cnidaria TRIPLOBLASTICA Phylum Ctenophora BILATERIA ACOELOMORPHA Phylum Acoela Phylum Nemertodermatida Phylum Xenoturbellida EUBILATERIA PROTOSTOMIA SPIRALIA (LOPHOTROCHOZOA) SCHIZOCOELA Phylum Annelida Phylum Sipuncula Phylum Mollusca Phylum Nemertini Phylum Platyhelminthes Phylum Gastrotricha GNATHIFERA Phylum Gnathostomulida Phylum Micrognathozoa Phylum Rotifera POLYZOA (=Bryozoa s.l.) Phylum Entoprocta Phylum Cycliophora Phylum Bryozoa (=Ectoprocta) BRACHIOZOA Phylum Phoronida Phylum Brachiopoda ECDYSOZOA PANARTHROPODA Phylum Arthropoda Phylum Onychophora Phylum Tardigrada CYCLONEURALIA NEMATOIDEA Phylum Nematoda Phylum Nematomorpha SCALIDOPHORA Phylum Priapula Phylum Kinorhyncha Phylum Loricifera Phylum Chaetognatha DEUTEROSTOMIA AMBULACRARIA Phylum Echinodermata HEMICHORDATA Phylum Enteropneusta Phylum Pterobranchia CHORDATA Phylum Cephalochordata Phylum Urochordata Phylum Vertebrata (Craniata) Problematica Systematic index Subject index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-960602-3
- Editorial: Oxford University Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 416
- Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2011
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- Idioma: Inglés