Titre :	The Biology of pelagic tunicates
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Bone, Q., Auteur
Editeur :	Oxford university press
Année de publication :	1998
Importance :	340 p.
Format :	27 cm.
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-19-854024-3
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Index. décimale :	596 Chordés. Vertébrés
Résumé :	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 Although the now outdated encyclopedic texts of the 1930s dealt with pelagic, tunicates, the results of much subsequent physiological and ecological work have only appeared in scattered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 This book is unique in giving a modern synthetic account of the biology of pelagic tunicates, with much new and unpublished information. Different chapters treat such topics as the ecological impact of slap blooms, locomotion by jet propulsion, the affinities of the 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 7 indicates 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.

The Biology of pelagic tunicates [texte imprimé] / Bone, Q., Auteur . - Oxford university press, 1998 . - 340 p. ; 27 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-19-854024-3
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Index. décimale :

596 Chordés. Vertébrés

Résumé :

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 Although the now outdated encyclopedic texts of the 1930s dealt with pelagic, tunicates, the results of much subsequent physiological and ecological work have only appeared in scattered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 This book is unique in giving a modern synthetic account of the biology of pelagic tunicates, with much new and unpublished information. Different chapters treat such topics as the ecological impact of slap blooms, locomotion by jet propulsion, the affinities of the 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 7 indicates 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.