Biology of Subterranean Fishes (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Trajano, Eleonora; Kapoor, B. G.; Bichuette, Maria Elina

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In most habitats, adaptations are the single most obvious aspects of an organism's phenotype. However, the most obvious feature of many subterranean animals are losses, not adaptations. Even Darwin saw subterranean animals as degenerates: examples of eyelessness and loss of structure in general. For him, the explanation was a straightforward Lamarc

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439840481
• Artikelnr.: 57532671

Autorenporträt

Eleonora Trajano, Maria Elina Bichuette, B.G. Kapoor

Inhaltsangabe

Cavefish: Retrospective and Prospective. Biodiversity and Distribution of
the Subterranean Fishes of the World. Conservation of Subterranean Fishes.
Behavioral Patterns in Subterranean Fishes. The Evolutionary Genetics of
Cave Fishes: Convergence, Adaptation and Pleiotropy. Development as an
Evolutionary Process in Astyanax Cavefishes. Subterranean Fishes of North
America: Amblyopsidae. Subterranean Fishes of Mexico (Poecilia mexicana,
Poeciliidae). Subterranean Fishes of Brazil. Subterranean Fishes of Africa.
Subterranean Fishes of China. Subterranean Fishes of India.