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Animal Biochromes and Structural Colours : Physical, Chemical, and Distributional and Physiological Features of Coloured Bodies in the Animal World / Denis L. Fox.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, Denis L., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (456 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed., Reprint 2020
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of text-figures
- List of tables
- Preface to Second Edition
- Preface to First Edition
- I INTRODUCTION
- II PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COLOUR
- III STRUCTURAL COLOURS OF ANIMALS
- IV TYNDALL SCATTERING AND DIFFRACTION COLOURS
- V IRIDESCENT COLOURS
- Chemical structure
- Chemical properties; general methods of separation and analysis
- Carotenoids in the animal phyla
- Protozoa
- Sponges
- Coelenterates
- Worms and Bryozoa
- Echinoderms
- Molluscs
- Arthropods
- Chordates
- Formation of vitamin A
- Natural deposits in the environment
- Summary
- VII CHROMOLIPOIDS OR LIPOFUSCINES
- VIII QUINONES
- IX ANTHOCYANS AND FLAVONES
- X INDOLE PIGMENTS: INDIGOIDS AND MELANINS
- XI TETRAPYRROLES: PORPHINS AND BILINS
- XII FLAVINS OR LYOCHROMES
- XIII PURINES AND PTERINS
- XIV SOME MISCELLANEOUS ANIMAL BIOCHROMES
- Bibliography
- Index of subjects
- Index of authors
- Supplement
- Supplementary Index of Subjects
- Supplementary Index of Authors
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780520339422
- 0520339428
- OCLC:
- 1198929877
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