{"product_id":"advances-in-the-biology-of-seth-tyler-9789061935421","title":"Advances in the Biology of Turbellarians and Related Platyhelminthes: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Turbellaria Held at Fre","description":"While the reality of the taxon Turbellaria has been called into question lately, turbellarians are nevertheless the subject of active research by a sizable group of biologists. Turbellarians are relatives of the major groups of parasitic platyhelminthes - monogeneans, digeneans, and tapeworms - and most are free-living. Because the ancestors to the major parasitic groups would be classified as turbellarians, strict application of princi ples of phylogenetic systematics dictates that the Turbellaria is not properly considered a separate taxon; i. e., it is, in the parlance of systematics, a paraphyletic group. The relationships of turbellarians to other inver tebrates are even more problematic than their relationships to other platyhelminthes; their relatively simple morphology has been variously interpreted as quintessentially primitive - meaning a turbellarian-like ances tor would have given rise to most of the major groups of invertebrates - or as secondary simplification, meaning they would essentially be a dead-end group. Modern research on turbellarians covers a broad spectrum. Questions of phylogenetics have inspired ultrastructural studies; the simply structured nervous systems of turbellarians make them good subjects for neurophysiology; simplicity of their tissue structure and the limited number of cell types make them good subjects of embryological and regeneration studies; they are emerging as iIIJ. portant indicator species in ecolo gy; and improvements in biochemical methodology have meant they are at last amenable - despite their small size - to molecular biological study.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Seth Tyler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9061935423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789061935421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.88d","brand":"Seth Tyler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48519854424319,"sku":"9789061935421","price":219.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b3234bc-8a5c-4e1b-937e-450eff1cc713.jpg?v=1778739236","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/advances-in-the-biology-of-seth-tyler-9789061935421","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}