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  title info:
    title: Water Bears: The Biology of Tardigrades
  name:
    name part: Schill, Ralph O.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 419 p. 118 illus., 57 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Offering extensive information on tardigrades, this volume begins with a chapter on the history of tardigrades, from the first description by Goeze in 1773, until 1929, when the most comprehensive monographic approach by E. Marcus was published. Tardigrades' organ systems, including their integument, body cavity, digestive, muscular, nervous and reproductive systems, as well as their overall external morphology, are summarized in the second chapter. Subsequent chapters present the current state of knowledge on tardigrade phylogeny, biogeography, paleontology, cytology and cytogenetics. In addition, the book provides insights into the ecology of tardigrades in marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats. The reproduction, development and life cycles are summarized and the extraordinary environmental adaptations of encystment and cyclomorphosis, desiccation tolerance, freezing tolerance and radiation tolerance are discussed in detail. Further chapters provide an overview of key approaches in molecular tardigrade studies and describe techniques for sampling and sample processing. The book closes with a list of tardigrade taxa up to a sub-generic level, including the type species of each genus, the numbers of lower taxa in each taxon, and the main environments in which the taxa were found. Given its depth of coverage, the volume offers an invaluable resource for scientists from various disciplines who plan to research tardigrades, and for all others who are interested in these fascinating animals.
  table of contents: From Johann August Ephraim Goeze to Ernst Marcus - A Ramble through the History of Early Tardigrade Research (1773 until 1929) -- Morphology and Functional Anatomy -- Phylogeny and integrative taxonomy of Tardigrada -- Tardigrade Biogeography -- Paleontology and molecular dating -- Cytology and Cytogenetics.
  note: edited by Ralph O. Schill.
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Animal ecology
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Ecology
  classification: QL1-991
  classification: 590
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Zoological Monographs, 2
  identifier: 9783319957029
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95702-9
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    record creation date: 190214
    record change date: 20191029032501.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-95702-9