Water Bears: The Biology of Tardigrades

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schill, Ralph O. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Zoological Monographs, 2
• Subjects: Zoology.; Evolutionary biology.; Animal ecology.; Evolutionary Biology.; Animal Ecology.

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 integ...

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.