Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Tuco Tucos
Download Tuco Tucos full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Tuco Tucos ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Tuco-Tucos by : Thales Renato Ochotorena de Freitas
Download or read book Tuco-Tucos written by Thales Renato Ochotorena de Freitas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the biology of tuco-tucos (Ctenomys) from an evolutionary perspective. Historically, these subterranean rodents have long attracted the attention of scientists due to its remarkable chromosomes variability and rapid diversification. A wealth of knowledge on physiology, ecology, genetics, morphology, paleontology, and taxonomy has been documented in the last 70 years through numerous single publications. In this volume, expert investigators review and frame these essays with the breadth of current understanding. The collection of chapters are presented into the major topics: i) Evolution of Ctenomys, ii) Geographic Patterns, iii) Organismal Biology, and iv) Environmental Relationships. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to both students and researchers and may stimulate further research with this exciting model on a wide range of evolutionary topics.
Book Synopsis Life Underground by : Eileen A. Lacey
Download or read book Life Underground written by Eileen A. Lacey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many mammals like to dig in the dirt, but few call it home. Those that do, such as mole-rats, zokors, and tuco-tucos, have developed novel adaptations to their subterranean life, including bones and muscles modified for efficient digging and ways to "see" underground without using their eyes. These unusual traits, adopted independently by unrelated groups around the world, also make subterranean rodents fascinating subjects for biologists. Life Underground provides the first comprehensive review of the biology of subterranean rodents. Arranged by topic rather than by taxon to facilitate cross-species comparisons, chapters cover such subjects as morphology, physiology, social behavior, genetic variation, and evolutionary diversification. Two main questions run throughout the book. First, to what extent has subterranean life shaped the biology of these animals, leading to similar adaptations among otherwise dissimilar species? Second, how have the distinct evolutionary histories of these groups led to different solutions to the challenges posed by life underground?
Book Synopsis Biological Relationships Between Africa and South America by : Peter Goldblatt
Download or read book Biological Relationships Between Africa and South America written by Peter Goldblatt and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mammals of South America, Volume 2 by : James L. Patton
Download or read book Mammals of South America, Volume 2 written by James L. Patton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 1363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the introduction of bioinformatics, and the explosion of molecular-based genetic methodologies have all contributed to the revision of many phylogenetic relationships and to a doubling of the recognized diversity of South American rodents. The largest and most diverse mammalian order on Earth—and an increasingly threatened one—Rodentia is also of great ecological importance, and Rodents is both a timely and exhaustive reference on these ubiquitous creatures. From spiny mice and guinea pigs to the oversized capybara, this book covers all native rodents of South America, the continental islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean Netherlands off the Venezuelan coast. It includes identification keys and descriptions of all genera and species; comments on distribution; maps of localities; discussions of subspecies; and summaries of natural, taxonomic, and nomenclatural history. Rodents also contains a detailed list of cited literature and a separate gazetteer based on confirmed identifications from museum vouchers and the published literature.
Book Synopsis The Biology of Small Mammals by : Joseph F. Merritt
Download or read book The Biology of Small Mammals written by Joseph F. Merritt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals of this size face different physiological and ecological challenges than larger mammals.
Book Synopsis Subterranean Rodents by : Sabine Begall
Download or read book Subterranean Rodents written by Sabine Begall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subterranean Rodents presents achievements from recent years of research on these rodents, divided into five sections: ecophysiology; sensory ecology; life histories, behavioural ecology and demography; environmental and economical impact; molecular ecology and evolution. It is a must for all researchers working in this field and will be of interest to zoologists, physiologists, morphologists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists.
Book Synopsis Sociobiology of Caviomorph Rodents by : Luis A. Ebensperger
Download or read book Sociobiology of Caviomorph Rodents written by Luis A. Ebensperger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully integrative approach to the socibiology of caviomorph rodents Brings together research on social systems with that on epigenetic, neurendocrine and developmental mechanisms of social behavior Describes the social systems of many previously understudied caviomorph species, identifying the fitness costs and benefits of social living in current day populations as well as quantified evolutionary patterns or trends Highlights potential parallels and differences with other animal models
Book Synopsis International Wildlife Encyclopedia by : Maurice Burton
Download or read book International Wildlife Encyclopedia written by Maurice Burton and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This twenty-two volume set presents the appearance and behavior of thousands of species of animals along with species population and prospects for survival in a arranged alphabetically and easy-to-read format.
Book Synopsis Cloud Native Go by : Matthew A. Titmus
Download or read book Cloud Native Go written by Matthew A. Titmus and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Docker, Kubernetes, and Prometheus have in common? All of these cloud native technologies are written in the Go programming language. This practical book shows you how to use Go's strengths to develop cloud native services that are scalable and resilient, even in an unpredictable environment. You'll explore the composition and construction of these applications, from lower-level features of Go to mid-level design patterns to high-level architectural considerations. Each chapter builds on the lessons of the last, walking intermediate to advanced developers through Go to construct a simple but fully featured distributed key-value store. You'll learn best practices for adopting Go as your development language for solving cloud native management and deployment issues. Learn how cloud native applications differ from other software architectures Understand how Go can solve the challenges of designing scalable distributed services Leverage Go's lower-level features, such as channels and goroutines, to implement a reliable cloud native service Explore what "service reliability" is and what it has to do with cloud native Apply a variety of patterns, abstractions, and tooling to build and manage complex distributed systems
Book Synopsis Rats, Bats, and Xenarthrans by : John P. Rafferty Associate Editor, Earth Sciences
Download or read book Rats, Bats, and Xenarthrans written by John P. Rafferty Associate Editor, Earth Sciences and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the features, behaviors, and major species of rats, bats, and xenarthrans.
Book Synopsis What’s Love Got to Do with it: The Evolution of Monogamy by : Alexander G. Ophir
Download or read book What’s Love Got to Do with it: The Evolution of Monogamy written by Alexander G. Ophir and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Quintessential Naturalist by : Douglas A. Kelt
Download or read book The Quintessential Naturalist written by Douglas A. Kelt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver P. Pearson’s studies on mammalian biology remain standard reading for ecologists, physiologists, taxonomists, and biogeographers. Reflecting this, the papers gathered here continue to expand our understanding of the ecology and evolution of subterranean mammals, and of ecology, taxonomy, and biogeography of Neotropical mammals, a group that was central to the latter half of Pearson’s career.
Book Synopsis Rodent Societies by : Jerry O. Wolff
Download or read book Rodent Societies written by Jerry O. Wolff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodent Societies synthesizes and integrates the current state of knowledge about the social behavior of rodents, providing ecological and evolutionary contexts for understanding their societies and highlighting emerging conservation and management strategies to preserve them. It begins with a summary of the evolution, phylogeny, and biogeography of social and nonsocial rodents, providing a historical basis for comparative analyses. Subsequent sections focus on group-living rodents and characterize their reproductive behaviors, life histories and population ecology, genetics, neuroendocrine mechanisms, behavioral development, cognitive processes, communication mechanisms, cooperative and uncooperative behaviors, antipredator strategies, comparative socioecology, diseases, and conservation. Using the highly diverse and well-studied Rodentia as model systems to integrate a variety of research approaches and evolutionary theory into a unifying framework, Rodent Societies will appeal to a wide range of disciplines, both as a compendium of current research and as a stimulus for future collaborative and interdisciplinary investigations.
Book Synopsis The Rodent Order by : Rebecca Stefoff
Download or read book The Rodent Order written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of every five mammals on Earth are rodents, yet most people know little about this amazingly diverse order of animals. Rats and mice may be all too familiar, but what about gundis and degus? And did you know that porcupines are rodents, but rabbits are not? The Rodent Order explores the world of rodents, from prehistoric guinea pigs the size of horses to the Laotian rock rat, a "living fossil" recently found alive in the forests of Southeast Asia. The Rodent Order also examines the long relationship between people and rodents. For thousands of years, rodents have influenced human life as pests, food, pets, and carriers of disease. Today human activities are threatening the survival of some rodent species, but other rodents are flourishing-sometimes right under our noses. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Neuroendocrine Regulation of Behavior by : Lique M. Coolen
Download or read book Neuroendocrine Regulation of Behavior written by Lique M. Coolen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special volume provides twelve contributions that discuss different aspects of social and endocrine behaviors with an emphasis on the neural regulation of these behaviors. In addition, several review chapters address the neural plasticity that results from exposure to hormones or the experiences with the behavior. Finally, each of the contributions emphasizes future directions and incorporation of newly developed neuroscience techniques and approaches.
Book Synopsis Cooperative Breeding in Mammals by : Nancy G. Solomon
Download or read book Cooperative Breeding in Mammals written by Nancy G. Solomon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COOPERATIVE BREEDING AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN ANIMAL SOCIETIES.
Book Synopsis Major Histocompatibility Complex by : M. Kasahara
Download or read book Major Histocompatibility Complex written by M. Kasahara and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every biological system is the outcome of evolution and has a history all its own. This history dictates how the system works and why it has certain properties and not others. This is why we need to study not only the structure and function, but also the history of the system. This argument undoubtedly applies to the study of the immune system and also to the study of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Since 1989, researchers of various scientific disciplines who share a deep inter est in MHC evolution have held a meeting every two years to discuss their latest research developments, exchange ideas, and foster friendship. Together with my colleagues Drs. Naoyuki Takahata and Yoko Satta, I organized the Sixth Interna tional Workshop on MHC Evolution in Hayama, Japan, May 25-29, 1999. This volume is the proceedings of that conference. It covers diverse topics pertinent to MHC evolution, including the origin of the adaptive immune system, the organi zation of the MHC in humans and other model vertebrates, MHC-parasite co evolution, and the nature and origin of MHC polymorphism. I hope that this book will be of interest not only for MHC researchers and immunologists, but also for other specialists who are interested in the evolution of biological systems in gen eral.
