rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Vertebrate Integument Volume 1
    sub title: Origin and Evolution
  name:
    name part: Lingham-Soliar, Theagarten.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 268 p. 169 illus., 54 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The vertebrate integument arose about 450 million years ago as an ‘armour’ of dermal bony plates in small, jawless fish-like creatures, informally known as the ostracoderms. This book reviews the major changes that have occurred in the vertebrate integument from its beginnings to the present day. Critical questions concerning the origin, structure and functional biology of the bony integument are discussed and intrinsically linked to major steps in vertebrate evolution and phylogeny—the origin of jaws and the origin of teeth. The discussions include the origins of mineralization of major vertebrate skeletal components such as the dermatocranium, branchial arches and vertebral column. The advances that led to the origin of modern fishes and their phylogenetic development are reviewed and include the evolution of fins and replacement of the bony plates with several types of dermal scales. The evolution of reptiles saw a major transformation of the integument, with the epidermis becoming the protective outermost layer, from which the scales arose, while the dermis lay below it. The biological significance of the newly-evolved β-keratin in reptilian scales, among the toughest natural materials known, is discussed in the context of its major contribution to the great success of reptiles and to the evolution of feathers and avian flight. The dermis in many vertebrates is strengthened by layers of oppositely oriented cross-fibres, now firmly entrenched as a design principle of biomechanics. Throughout the book conventional ideas are discussed and a number of new hypotheses are presented in light of the latest developments. The long evolutionary history of vertebrates indicates that the significance of the Darwinian concept of “survival of the fittest” may be overstated, including in our own mammalian origins, and that chance often plays a major role in evolutionary patterns. Extensive illustrations are included to support the verbal descriptions. Professor Theagarten Lingh…
  table of contents: Introduction -- The First Vertebrates, Jawless Fishes, the Agnathans -- The Earliest Jawed Vertebrates, the Gnathostomes -- Evolution of Modern Fishes: Critical Biological Innovations -- Tetrapods and the Invasion of Land -- Crucial Vertebrate Innovations -- The Dinosaur Integument -- Mammal-like Reptiles -- Reptiles Return to the Sea.
  note: by Theagarten Lingham-Soliar.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Vertebrates
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Vertebrates
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  classification: QL605-739.8
  classification: 596
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783642537486
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53748-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 140218
    record change date: 20151204180140.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-53748-6