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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Vertebrate Integument Volume 2
    sub title: Structure, Design and Function
  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: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 348 p. 208 illus., 42 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The emphasis in this volume is on the structure and functional design of the integument. The book starts with a brief introduction to some basic principles of physics (mechanics) including Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. These principles are subsequently used to interpret the problems animals encounter in motion. It is in only the last 40 or so years that we have begun to understand how important a role the integument plays in the locomotion of many marine vertebrates. This involves the crossed-fiber architecture, which was first discovered in a classic study on nemertean worms. As a design principle we see that the crossed-fiber architecture is ubiquitous in nature. Research on some of the most dynamic marine vertebrates of the oceans – tuna, dolphins and sharks, and the extinct Jurassic ichthyosaurs – shows precisely how the crossed-fiber architecture contributes to high-speed swimming and (in lamnid sharks) may even aid in energy conservation. However, this design principle is not restricted to animals in the marine biota but is also found as far afield as the dinosaurs and, most recently, has been revealed as a major part of the microstructure of the most complex derivative of the integument, the feather. We see that a variety of phylogenetically diverse vertebrates take to the air by using skin flaps to glide from tree to tree or to the ground, and present detailed descriptions of innovations developed in pursuit of improved gliding capabilities in both extinct and modern day gliders. But the vertebrate integument had even greater things in store, namely true or flapping flight. Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to use the integument as a membrane in true flapping flight and these interesting extinct animals are discussed on the basis of past and cutting-edge research , most intriguingly with respect to the structure of the flight membrane. Bats, the only mammals that fly, also employ integumental flight membranes. Classic research on bat flight is reviewed …
  table of contents: Swimming and Flying in Vertebrates -- Vertebrate Swimming -- Vertebrates Make Their Flight Reservations -- Flight by Membrane -- Birds -- Integumental Taphonomy -- The Last Best Hope.
  note: by Theagarten Lingham-Soliar.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Animal anatomy
  subject:
    topic: Animal physiology
  subject:
    topic: Vertebrates
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Vertebrates
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Physiology
  classification: QL605-739.8
  classification: 596
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783662460054
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46005-4
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