The Biology of Pelagic Tunicates
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 January 1998
- ISBN 9780198540243
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages354 pages
- Size 255x199x25 mm
- Weight 882 g
- Language English
- Illustrations frontispiece, numerous halftones and line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
Pelagic Tunicates play an important role in the sea as filter feeding animals of the macroplankton in geochemical cycling. This is the first book in fifty years to provide a full account of all the Tunicate groups. It should therefore be of enormous value to plankton workers, containing keys to aid identification. For the aid of researchers, the authors have highlighted areas where further work is needed.
MoreLong description:
Pelagic tunicates are fascinating for their beauty, remarkable in most cases for their curious and even bizarre life cycles, and often notable for extraordinarily rapid growth. Furthermore, in recent years their major importance in the economy of the sea has been recognized.
Although the now outdated encyclopaedic texts of the 1930s dealt with pelagic tunicates, the results of much subsequent physiological and ecological work have only appeared in scattered articles. This book is unique in giving a modern account of the biology of pelagic tunicates, with much new and unpublished information. Different chapters treat such topics as the ecological impact of salp blooms, locomotion by jet propulsion, the affinities of different groups, and the abundance and distribution of each group. Updated classification and identification keys to every pelagic tunicate now known are included.
The Biology of Pelagic Tunicates will be useful to all plankton workers, and may perhaps stimulate ecologists, physiologists, and geneticists to begin work on a somewhat neglected group of animals that offer some unusual advantages for different kinds of study.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Anatomy of Thaliacea
Chapter 2 - Anatomy of Appendicularia
Chapter 3 - Locomotion, locomotor muscles and buoyancy
Chapter 4 - Nervous system, sense organs and excitable epithelia
Chapter 5 - Feeding and energetics of Thaliaceans
Chapter 6 - The Appendicularian house
Chapter 7 - Salp and pyrosomid blooms and their importance in biogeochemical cycles
Chapter 8 - Feeding and metabolism of appendicularians
Chapter 9 - Life history of the appendicularians
Chapter 10 - The role of appendicularia in marine food webs
Chapter 11 - The parasites and predators of Thaliacea
Chapter 12 - Bioluminescence in the Appendicularia
Chapter 13 - The cladistic biogeography of salps and pyrosomas
Chapter 14 - Appendicularian distribution and zoogeography
Chapter 15 - Molecular phylogeny of tunicates. A preliminary study using 28 Sribosomal RNA partial sequences: implications in terms of evolution and ecology
Chapter 16 - The relationships and systematics of the Thaliacea, with keys for identification
Chapter 17 - The classification of Appendicularia
References
Taxonomic Index
Subject Index
