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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1605353752
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1605353753
• Author: Richard C. Brusca; Wendy Moore; Stephen M. Shuster

In the twelve years since publication of Invertebrates, Second Edition, fundamental shifts have occurred in our understanding of the origins and evolutionary relationships among protists and animals. These changes are largely due to the explosion of molecular phylogenetics and evo-devo research, emergence of the new field of animal genomics, major fossil discoveries in China, Australia, and elsewhere, and important new embryological and ultrastructural studies. As a result:

Table contents:

1. Introduction

2. Systematics, Phylogeny, and Classification

3. The Protists: Kingdom Protista

4. Introduction to the Animal Kingdom: Animal Architecture and

5. Introduction to the Animal Kingdom: Development, Life Histories, and Origin

6. Two Basal Metazoan Phyla: Porifera and Placozoa

7. Phylum Cnidaria: Anemones, Corals, Jellyfish, and Their Kin

8. Phylum Ctenophora: The Comb Jellies

9. Introduction to the Bilateria and the Phylum Xenacoelomorpha: Triploblasty and Bilateral Symmetry Provide New Avenues for Animal Radiation

10. Phylum Platyhelminthes: The Flatworms

11. Four Enigmatic Protostome Phyla: Rhombozoa, Orthonectida,

12. Phylum Nemertea: The Ribbon Worms

13. Phylum Mollusca

14. Phylum Annelida: The Segmented (and Some Unsegmented)

15. Two Enigmatic Spiralian Phyla: Entoprocta and Cycliophora

16. The Gnathifera: Phyla Gnathostomulida, Rotifera (including

17. The Lophophorates: Phyla Phoronida, Bryozoa, and Brachiopoda

18. The Nematoida: Phyla Nematoda and Nematomorpha

19. The Scalidophora: Phyla Kinorhyncha, Priapula, and Loricifera

20. The Emergence of the Arthropods: Tardigrades, Onychophorans, and the Arthropod Body Plan

21. Phylum Arthropoda: Crustacea: Crabs, Shrimps, and Their Kin

22. Phylum Arthropoda: The Hexapoda: Insects and Their Kin

23. Phylum Arthropoda: The Myriapods: Centipedes, Millipedes, and Their Kin

24. Phylum Arthropoda: The Chelicerata

25. Introduction to the Deuterostomes and the Phylum

26. Phylum Hemichordata: Acorn Worms and Pterobranchs

27. Phylum Chordata: Cephalochordata and Urochordata

28. Perspectives on Invertebrate Phylogeny