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Invertebrate Zoology: A Tree of Life Approach

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By Bernd Schierwater, Rob DeSalle

Invertebrate Zoology: A Tree of Life Approachย is a comprehensive and authoritative textbook adopting an explicitly phylogenetic organization. Most of the classical anatomical and morphological work has not been changed โ€“ it established the foundation of Invertebrate Zoology. With the explosion of Next-Generation Sequencing approaches, there has been a sea-change in the recognized phylogenetic relationships among and between invertebrate lineages. In addition, the merger of evolutionary and developmental biology (evo-devo) has dramatically contributed to changes in the understanding of invertebrate biology. Synthesizing these three approaches (classical morphology, sequencing data, and evo-devo studies) offers students an entirely unique perspective of invertebrate diversity.

  • One of the first textbooks to combine classical morphological approaches and newer evo-devo and Next-Generation Sequencing approaches to address Invertebrate Zoology
  • Organized along taxonomic lines in accord with the latest understanding of invertebrate phylogeny
  • Will provide background in basic systematic analysis useful within any study of biodiversity
  • A wealth of ancillary materials for students and teachers, including downloadable figures, lecture slides, web links, and phylogenetic data matrices
Table of Contents
  • Prologue
  • Introduction to Invertebrate Zoology
  • How to Study Invertebrates
  • Invertebrate Phylogenomics
  • Modern Invertebrate Systematics: The Phylogenetics of Early Metazoa
  • Organizing Invertebrates
  • Introduction to the Invertebrate Tree of Life
  • Choanoflagellata and Others
  • Placozoa
  • Porifera
  • Ctenophora
  • Cnidaria
  • Scyphozoa
  • Anthozoa
  • Hydrozoa
  • Myxozoa
  • Bilateria
  • Platyhelminthes
  • Chaetognatha
  • Gastrotricha
  • Rotifera
  • Gnathostomulida, Micrognathozoa and Cycliophora
  • Lophotrochozoa
  • Mollusca
  • Annelida
  • Ectoprocta and Phoronida
  • Nemertea
  • Acanthocephala
  • Entoprocta
  • Ecdysozoa
  • Crustacea
  • Hexapoda
  • Chelicerata
  • Myriapoda
  • Onychophora
  • Nematoda
  • Tardigrada
  • Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha
  • Deuterostomia
  • Echinodermata
  • Xenoturbellida
  • Chordata โ€“ Invertebrate Chordates
  • Epilogue

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