Systematics and the Exploration of Life 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781786302656,1786302659,9781119489177, 1119489172

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 1119489172
• ISBN-13: 9781119489177
• Author: Philippe Grandcolas, Marie-Christine Maurel

This book’s aim is to obtain and organize knowledge about the diversity of living things. Their epistomological and methodological fundamentals are explained in the framework of the biology of evolution. The methods of construction and use of phylogenetic trees are presented as well as the classification and description of taxa with the nomenclature rules.

Table contents:

1 Symmetry of Shapes in Biology: from D’Arcy Thompson to Morphometrics

2 Impact of a Point Mutation in a Protein Structure

3 The Role of Taxonomy and Natural History in the Study of the Evolution of Eneopterinae Crickets

4 Systematics in the (Post)genomic Era: A Look at the Drosophila Model

5 Dealing with Multiple Environments: The Challenges of the Trypanosome Lifecycle

6 Challenges Inherent in the Systematics and Taxonomy of Genera that have Recently Experienced Explosive Radiation: The Case of Orchids of the Genus Ophrys

7 Exploration and Origins of Biodiversity in Madagascar: The Message of Ferns

8 Mediterranean and Atlantic Algae, a Fraternal Relationship?

9 Ontogeny and Evolution of the Hyperorgan of Delphinieae

10 Identification of Interspecific Chromosomal Homologies: Chromosomal Microdissection and Chromosomal Painting in Antarctic Teleosts Nototheniidae

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