Animal evolution : interrelationships of the living phyla / Claus Nielsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nielsen, Claus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phylogeny.

Evolution (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2011

Summary:

Animal Evolution provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary interrelationships and myriad diversity of the Animal Kingdom. It reviews the classical, morphological information from structure and embryology, as well as the new data gained from studies using immune stainings of nerves and muscles and blastomere markings which makes it possible to follow the fate of single blastomeres all the way to early organogenesis. Until recently, the information from analyses of gene sequences has tended to produce myriads of quite diverging trees. However, the latest generation of molecular methods, using many genes, expressed sequence tags, and even whole genomes, has brought a new stability to the field. For the first time this book brings together the information from these varied fields, and demonstrates that it is indeed now possible to build a phylogenetic tree from a combination of both morphology and gene sequences. This thoroughly revised third edition of Animal Evolution brings the subject fully up to date, especially in light of the latest advances in molecular techniques. The book is generously illustrated throughout with finely detailed line drawings and clear diagrams, many of them new.

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. ANIMALIA (METAZOA) 3. Prelude: Phylum Choanoflagellata 4. Early animal radiation 5. Phylum Silicea 6. EURADICULATA 7. Phylum Calcarea 8. PROEPITHELIOZOA 9. Phylum Homoscleromorpha 10. EUMETAZOA (GASTRAEOZOA) 11. Phylum Placozoa 12. NEURALIA 13. Phylum Cnidaria 14. TRIPLOBLASTICA 15. Phylum Ctenophora 16. BILATERIA 17. ACOELOMORPHA 18. Phylum Acoela 19. Phylum Nemertodermatida 20. Phylum Xenoturbellida 21. EUBILATERIA 22. PROTOSTOMIA 23. SPIRALIA (LOPHOTROCHOZOA) 24. SCHIZOCOELIA 25. Phylum Annelida 26. Phylum Sipuncula 27. Phylum Mollusca 28. Phylum Nemertini 29. Phylum Platyhelminthes 30. Phylum Gastrotricha 31. GNATHIFERA 32. Phylum Gnathostomulida 33. Phylum Micrognathozoa 34. Phylum Rotifera 35. POLYZOA (BRYOZOA s.l.) 36. Phylum Entoprocta 37. Phylum Cycliophora 38. Phylum Bryozoa (Ectoprocta) 39. BRACHIOZOA 40. Phylum Phoronida 41. Phylum Brachiopoda 42. ECDYSOZOA 43. PANARTHROPODA 44. Phylum Arthropoda 45. Phylum Onychophora 46. Phylum Tardigrada 47. CYCLONEURALIA 48. NEMATOIDEA 49. Phylum Nematoda 50. Phylum Nematomorpha 51. SCALIDOPHORA 52. Phylum Priapula 53. Phylum Kinorhyncha 54. Phylum Loricifera 55. Phylum Chaetognatha 56. DEUTEROSTOMIA 57. AMBULACRARIA 58. Phylum Echinodermata 59. HEMICHORDATA 60. Phylum Enteropneusta 61. Phylum Pterobranchia 62. CHORDATA 63. Phylum Cephalochordata 64. Phylum Urochordata 65. Phylum Vertebrata (Craniata) 66. Problematica Systematic index Subject index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-177470-7

9786613426802

0-19-162530-2

1-283-42680-3

0-19-960603-X

0-19-960602-1