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Arthropod Brains

Author : Nicholas James Strausfeld
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674046331
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Arthropod Brains written by Nicholas James Strausfeld and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin proposed that an ant’s brain, no larger than a pin’s head, must be sophisticated to accomplish all that it does. Yet today many people still find it surprising that insects and other arthropods show behaviors that are much more complex than innate reflexes. They are products of versatile brains which, in a sense, think. Fascinating in their own right, arthropods provide fundamental insights into how brains process and organize sensory information to produce learning, strategizing, cooperation, and sociality. Nicholas Strausfeld elucidates the evolution of this knowledge, beginning with nineteenth-century debates about how similar arthropod brains were to vertebrate brains. This exchange, he shows, had a profound and far-reaching impact on attitudes toward evolution and animal origins. Many renowned scientists, including Sigmund Freud, cut their professional teeth studying arthropod nervous systems. The greatest neuroanatomist of them all, Santiago Ramón y Cajal—founder of the neuron doctrine—was awed by similarities between insect and mammalian brains. Writing in a style that will appeal to a broad readership, Strausfeld weaves anatomical observations with evidence from molecular biology, neuroethology, cladistics, and the fossil record to explore the neurobiology of the largest phylum on earth—and one that is crucial to the well-being of our planet. Highly informative and richly illustrated, Arthropod Brains offers an original synthesis drawing on many fields, and a comprehensive reference that will serve biologists for years to come.

Arthropod Brain

Author : A. P. Gupta
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Arthropod Brain written by A. P. Gupta and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1987-09-29 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive textbook and reference guide to the arthropod brain. The material is arranged logically in three sections. Section I, on evolution, includes a discussion on the presence of a fourth component, tetrocerebrum in the insect brain in addition to the three commonly recognized parts, and the evolutionary trends in the central and mushroom bodies in major arthropod groups. A section on structure and function includes detailed ultrastructural studies of the brain as well as studies of the mechanoreceptory centers, peripheral sensory coding and sensilla function, and antennal information processing. Also examines biochemical topics such as bioamines and mucosubstances, their respective roles in brain function, and various techniques of brain research.

Evolution of Arthropod Mechanisms

Author : Robert E. Snodgrass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Arthropod Mechanisms written by Robert E. Snodgrass and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evolution of Arthropod Mechanisms

Author : Snodgrass R. E.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780243808748
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Arthropod Mechanisms written by Snodgrass R. E. and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plants and the Human Brain

Author : David O. Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199914028
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Plants and the Human Brain written by David O. Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're all familiar with the idea that plant-derived chemicals can have an impact on the functioning of the human brain. Most of us reach for a cup of coffee or tea in the morning, many of us occasionally eat some chocolate, some smoke a cigarette or take an herbal supplement, and some people use illicit drugs. We know a great deal about the mechanisms by which the psychoactive components of these various products have their effects on human brain function, but the question of why they have these effects has been almost totally ignored. This book sets out to describe not only how, in terms of pharmacology or psychopharmacology, but more importantly why plant- and fungus-derived chemicals have their effects on the human brain. The answer to this last question resides, in part, with the terrestrial world's two dominant life forms, the plants and the insects, and the many ecological roles the 'secondary metabolite' plant chemicals are trying to play; for instance, defending the plant against insect herbivores whilst attracting insect pollinators. The answer also resides in the intersecting genetic heritage of mammals, plants, and insects and the surprising biological similarities between the three taxa. In particular it revolves around the close correspondence between the brains of insects and humans, and the intercellular signaling pathways shared by plants and humans. Plants and the Human Brain describes and discusses both how and why phytochemicals affect brain function with respect to the three main groups of secondary metabolites: the alkaloids, which provide us with caffeine, a host of poisons, a handful of hallucinogens, and most drugs of abuse (e.g. morphine, cocaine, DMT, LSD, and nicotine); the phenolics, including polyphenols, which constitute a significant and beneficial part of our natural diet; and the terpenes, a group of multifunctional compounds which provide us with the active components of cannabis and a multitude of herbal extracts such as ginseng, ginkgo and valerian.

The Neurobiology of an Insect Brain

Author : Malcolm Burrows
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Neurobiology of an Insect Brain written by Malcolm Burrows and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the advances in insect neurobiology in the last two decades and highlights the contributions of this field to our understanding of how nervous systems function in general. By concentrating largely on one insect, the locust, this book unravels the mechanisms by which a brain integrates the vast array of sensory information to generate movement and behavior. The author describes the structure and development of the insect brain, detailing the cellular properties of insect neurons and the way they are altered by neurosecretors. Insect movements are fully analyzed at the cellular level to illustrate particular features of integrative processing. Richly illustrated, this volume emphasizes how the brain of an insect can be an informative model for defining basic neural mechanisms, shared by other animals and man.

Arthropod Biology and Evolution

Author : Alessandro Minelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642361609
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Arthropod Biology and Evolution written by Alessandro Minelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two thirds of all living organisms described to date belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But their diversity, as measured in terms of species number, is also accompanied by an amazing disparity in terms of body form, developmental processes, and adaptations to every inhabitable place on Earth, from the deepest marine abysses to the earth surface and the air. The Arthropoda also include one of the most fashionable and extensively studied of all model organisms, the fruit-fly, whose name is not only linked forever to Mendelian and population genetics, but has more recently come back to centre stage as one of the most important and more extensively investigated models in developmental genetics. This approach has completely changed our appreciation of some of the most characteristic traits of arthropods as are the origin and evolution of segments, their regional and individual specialization, and the origin and evolution of the appendages. At approximately the same time as developmental genetics was eventually turning into the major agent in the birth of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), molecular phylogenetics was challenging the traditional views on arthropod phylogeny, including the relationships among the four major groups: insects, crustaceans, myriapods, and chelicerates. In the meantime, palaeontology was revealing an amazing number of extinct forms that on the one side have contributed to a radical revisitation of arthropod phylogeny, but on the other have provided evidence of a previously unexpected disparity of arthropod and arthropod-like forms that often challenge a clear-cut delimitation of the phylum.

Evolution of Arthropod Mechanisms

Author : Robert Evans Snodgrass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258310059
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Arthropod Mechanisms written by Robert Evans Snodgrass and published by . This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Atlas of an Insect Brain

Author : Nicholas J. Strausfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780040073431
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Atlas of an Insect Brain written by Nicholas J. Strausfeld and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evolution of Arthropod Mechanisms

Author : Robert E. Snodgrass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598383181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Arthropod Mechanisms written by Robert E. Snodgrass and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nervous Systems of Invertebrates: An Evolutionary and Comparative Approach

Author : O. Breidbach
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034892195
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Nervous Systems of Invertebrates: An Evolutionary and Comparative Approach written by O. Breidbach and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume outstanding specialists review the state of the art in nervous system research for all main invertebrate groups. They provide a comprehensive up-to-date analysis important for everyone working on neuronal aspects of single groups, as well as taking into account the phylogenesis of invertebrates. The articles report on recently gained knowledge about diversification in the invertebrate nervous systems, and demonstrate the analytical power of a comparative approach. Novel techniques in molecular and developmental biology are creating new perspectives that point toward a theoretical foundation for a modern organismic biology. The comparative approach, as documented here, will engage the interest of anyone challenged by the problem of structural diversification in biology.

Identified Neurons and Behavior of Arthropods

Author : Graham Hoyle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781468469691
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Identified Neurons and Behavior of Arthropods written by Graham Hoyle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identified Neurons and Behavior of Arthropods presents for the larger audience the papers delivered at a symposium of the same title. I organized this symposium so that a few of the many who owe him a great scientific debt could honor Professor C. A. G. (Kees) Wiersma upon his attaining the age of 70 and retiring from the California Institute of Technology. Everyone of the participants publicly acknowledged his debt to Kees Wiersma, but in a sense there was no need to do so, because the research reported spoke for itself. Seldom in a rapidly developing branch of modem science has all of the recent progress so clearly stemmed from the pioneering work of a single figure. But in this subject, the role of identified nerve cells in determining behavior, Wiersma stood virtually alone for 30 years. He it was who first showed that indi vidual nerve cells are recognizable and functionally important and have "per sonalities" of their own.

Nerve Cells and Insect Behavior

Author : Kenneth David Roeder
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674608016
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Nerve Cells and Insect Behavior written by Kenneth David Roeder and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insects are ideal subjects for neurophysiological studies. This classic volume relates the activities of nerve cells to the activities of insects, something that had never been attempted when the book first appeared in 1963. In several elegant experiments, Roeder shows how stimulus and behavior are related through the nervous system.

Evolution of Arthropod Mechanisms (Classic Reprint)

Author : R. E. Snodgrass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332814893
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Arthropod Mechanisms (Classic Reprint) written by R. E. Snodgrass and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Evolution of Arthropod Mechanisms Any study of evolution necessarily involves theories, but if we stopped short with known facts our phylogenetic trees would wither at the roots. Particularly when we attempt to reconstruct events that took place in remote Precambrian times we can have recourse only to our imagination. Where connecting links between modern animals cannot be known, we must invent them; at least, if evolution is true, we can feel sure that connecting links really did exist. Imagination, of course, must be controlled by reasoning from the known to the unknown, but unfortunately our brains do not all reason in the same way and often produce very different concepts from the same set of facts. Yet some ideas should be more plausible than others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Neurobiology of Arachnids

Author : F.G. Barth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642703488
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Neurobiology of Arachnids written by F.G. Barth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arachnids rarely come to mind when one discusses arthropod neurobiology. In fact much more is now known and written about the nervous systems of insects and crustaceans. Several arguments have led us to conclude, however, that the time has come to document impor tant aspects of the neurobiology of spiders, scorpions, and their kin, as well. Studies of arachnid neurobiology have made considerable progress since the last comprehensive treatment by Bullock and Horridge in their monumental monograph on invertebrate nervous systems pub lished in 1965. This is especially true for research performed in the last decade. Several problems related to the structure and function of arachnid nervous and sensory systems have now been studied in con siderable depth but have so far not been given adequate space under one cover. A particular incentive to produce this book has been the impor tance attributed to comparative approaches in neurobiology. Neglect ing a large taxonomic group such as the arachnids - which comprises some 60,000 species living a wide range of different lives - would mean ignoring an enormous potential source of knowledge. In writing the chapters of this book we have striven to present some of the unique features of the arachnids. But the result of our efforts is not just meant to contribute to an understanding of the particularities of the arach nids.

Advances in Insect Physiology

Author :
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780080579207
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Insect Physiology written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1993-12-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insect Physiology is currently undergoing a revolution with the increased application of molecular biological techniques to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying the physiological responses to insect cells. Advances in Insect Physiology has instituted a commitment to the publication of high quality reviews on molecular biology and molecular genetics in areas where they provide an increased understanding of physiological processes in insects. Volume 24 is the first to include such specifically sought articles.

Physiological Systems in Insects

Author : Marc J Klowden
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0124159702
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Physiological Systems in Insects written by Marc J Klowden and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physiological Systems in Insects discusses the roles of molecular biology, neuroendocrinology, biochemistry, and genetics in our understanding of insects. All chapters in the new edition are updated, with major revisions to those covering swiftly evolving areas like endocrine, developmental, behavioral, and nervous systems. The new edition includes the latest details from the literature on hormone receptors, behavioral genetics, insect genomics, neural integration, and much more. Organized according to insect physiological functions, this book is fully updated with the latest and foundational research that has influenced understanding of the patterns and processes of insects and is a valuable addition to the collection of any researcher or student working with insects. There are about 10 quintillion insects in the world divided into more than one million known species, and some scientists believe there may be more than 30 million species. As the largest living group on earth, insects can provide us with insight into adaptation, evolution, and survival. The internationally respected third edition of Marc Klowden's standard reference for entomologists and researchers and textbook for insect physiology courses provides the most comprehensive analysis of the systems that make insects important contributors to our environment. Third edition has been updated with new information in almost every chapter and new figures Includes an extensive up-to-date bibliography in each chapter Provides a glossary of common entomological and physiological terms