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Annelida

Autor Greg Rouse, Fredrik Pleijel, Ekin Tilic
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iul 2024

Structura acestui tratat academic este construită pe o logică taxonomică riguroasă, menită să ofere o referință completă pentru filumul Annelida. Volumul debutează cu o introducere metodologică esențială, detaliind tehnicile de colectare și conservare optimă, urmată de o prezentare a terminologiei anatomice necesare. Nucleul lucrării este format din 77 de capitole taxonomice, organizate în conformitate cu o nouă ipoteză filogenetică, ce integrează datele morfologice cu cele mai recente dovezi moleculare filogenomice. Ne-a atras atenția extinderea spectrului de studiu: dacă edițiile anterioare se concentrau pe polichete, prezentul volum încorporează grupuri precum Clitellata, Sipuncula și Thalassematidae, reflectând diversitatea habitatelor marine și terestre. Putem afirma că rigoarea științifică este susținută vizual de cele 155 de ilustrații color și micrografiile SEM, care documentează variațiile de formă și mărime ale acestor organisme model. Cititorii familiarizați cu Morphology, Molecules, Evolution and Phylogeny in Polychaeta and Related Taxa vor aprecia modul în care acest volum actualizează teoriile privind grupurile anterior considerate filumuri independente, oferind o viziune unificată și modernă asupra evoluției anelidelor. Este o resursă care transcende simpla descriere biologică, adresându-se direct provocărilor actuale din sistematica nevertebratelor.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198893585
ISBN-10: 0198893582
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 155 colour line figures and illustrations and 16 pages of colour gallery illustrations
Dimensiuni: 220 x 275 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.57 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această ediție reprezintă standardul actual în zoologia nevertebratelor, fiind indispensabilă pentru biologi și cercetători. Cititorul câștigă acces la o clasificare actualizată prin metode moleculare și la o documentație vizuală de excepție. Este un instrument de lucru esențial pentru înțelegerea evoluției anelidelor ca organisme model în ecologia modernă.


Despre autor

Greg Rouse, Fredrik Pleijel și Ekin Tilic sunt cercetători de renume internațional, specializați în sistematica și filogenia nevertebratelor. Greg Rouse este recunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale fundamentale în taxonomia anelidelor, în timp ce Fredrik Pleijel a publicat lucrări de referință despre polichete. Ekin Tilic completează echipa cu expertiză în tehnici moderne de imagistică și analize moleculare. Împreună, autorii au sintetizat decenii de cercetare de teren și de laborator pentru a produce acest tratat publicat de OUP OXFORD.


Descriere

Annelids (the segmented worms) exist in a remarkably diverse range of mostly marine but also freshwater and terrestrial habitats, varying greatly in size and form. Annelida provides a fully updated and expanded taxonomic reference work which broadens the scope of the classic Polychaetes (OUP, 2001) to encompass wider groups including Clitellata (comprising more than a third of total annelid diversity), Sipuncula, and Thalassematidae (formerly Echiura). It reflects the enormous amount of research on these organisms that has burgeoned since the millennium, principally due to their use as model organisms to address wider and more general evolutionary and ecological questions.Beginning with a clear introduction to the phylum and an outline of annelid taxonomy, this authoritative text describes their collection, the methods to ensure their optimal preservation, and an overview of anatomy with its relevant terminology. The core of the work comprises 77 fully up-to-date taxonomic chapters, informed by anatomy and the latest molecular phylogenomic evidence and carefully organised based on a new, robust phylogenetic hypothesis. Lavishly illustrated throughout with hundreds of previously unpublished high-resolution colour images and SEM micrographs, the sheer beauty and diversity of the annelids is nowhere better presented.Annelida is the definitive reference work for annelid biologists, whilst being of interest to a broader audience of invertebrate zoologists, systematists, and organismal biologists.

Recenzii

Review from previous edition 'In this magnificent volume, Rouse and Pleijel present a masterly, fascinating and encyclopaedic summary on an important group of animals. Whilst the core of the book is systematic, the overview at the beginning of the book is concise and invaluable...this introductory section is then succeeded by detailed comparisons, which are not only excellently illustrated but complemented by a handsome set of colour pictures.' (Geological Magazine )
'This book is very well presented, with a swag of coloured photographs taken of live animals, some lovely micrographs of this amazing group of animals and line drawings for each family.' (Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology )
'A book of this nature was clearly an enormous undertaking, and the authors are to be congratulated on the final product ...it will be of immense value to anyone intending to study, or currently investigating, Africa's rich polychaete fauna... chapters are informative and are excellent as a quick reference for information on any taxon. If more detail is needed, readers will find the text well referenced.' (African Zoology )
Annelida is a classic taxon book...this is a massive book that surely took years to amalgamate and deserves a place on the bookshelf, nay, the coffee table, of any naturalist.

Notă biografică

Greg Rouse is a Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology and is also Curator of the Benthic Invertebrate Collection at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA. He specializes in studying the biodiversity, phylogeny, and systematics of marine animals. He has been on numerous oceanographic expeditions involving deep sea habitats, including whale falls, hydrothermal vents and methane seeps and has been involved in the discovery and naming of more than 200 species, mostly annelids. Prior to joining Scripps, he held research positions at the South Australian Museum and University of Sydney, and as a research fellow (with Kristian Fauchald) at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, USA.Ekin Tilic is currently serving as Curator of Marine Invertebrates at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bonn, Germany. He was elected the president of the International Polychaetology Association in 2023. His academic journey includes extensive postdoctoral research focused on annelid evolution and morphology at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Bonn, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego and at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research combines phylogenomic methods with advanced bioimaging techniques to study the evolutionary relationships and morphology of marine invertebrate taxa, particularly polychaetes.Fredrik Pleijel is a Senior Researcher at Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He previously held a position as curator at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, completed a post-doc working mainly on hesionid polychaetes (also with Kristian Fauchald) at the Smithsonian Institution and was formerly Senior researcher at Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, France.