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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465443603321
• Autore: Nielsen Claus
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012; ©2012
• ISBN: 0-19-960603-X; 1-283-42680-3; 0-19-162530-2; 9786613426802
• Edizione: [Third edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (421 p.)
• Disciplina: 591.38
• Soggetti: Phylogeny; Evolution (Biology); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; 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 Mollusca28. 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 Kinorhyncha54. 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 metho