Handbook of Zoology - Volume II: Comparative Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Eutheria II - Taxonomy, Biogeography and Food Laurasiatheria, General Discussion

This volume of the series Handbook of Zoology deals with the anatomy of the gastrointestinal digestive tract - stomach, small intestine, caecum and colon - in all eutherian orders and suborders. It presents compilations of anatomical studies, as well as an extensive list of references, which makes widely dispersed literature accessible.
Introductory sections to orders and suborders give notice to biology, taxonomy, biogeography and food of the respective taxon.
It is a characteristic of this book that different sections of the post-oesophageal tract are discussed separately from each other. Informations on form and function of organs of digestion in eutherians are discussed under comparative-anatomical aspects. The variability and diversity of anatomical structures represents the basis of functional differentiations.

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About the author

Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, geboren 1966, ist Privatdozent in der Arbeitsgruppe Zoomorphologie und Systematik an der Universität Bielefeld; zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen über Saitenwürmer (Nematomorpha) - u.a. über die Morphologie mariner und limnischer Arten, über neue und bekannte Arten sowie über die Systematik der Gruppe aufgrund von morphologischen und molekularen Merkmalen. Zur Zeit mehrere Projekte zu Morphologie, Entwicklung, Taxonomie und Lebenszyklus der Nematomorpha.

Product details

• Authors: Willy Kükenthal, Peter Langer
• Assisted by: Max Beier (Editor), Maximilian Fischer (Editor), Johann-Gerhard Helmcke (Editor), Willy Kükenthal (Editor), Andrea Schmidt-Rhaesa (Editor), Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa (Editor), Dietrich Starck (Editor), Heinz Wermuth (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.09.2017
• EAN: 9783110560473
• ISBN: 978-3-11-056047-3
• No. of pages: 380
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 23 mm x 284 mm
• Weight: 1282 g
• Illustrations: 517 col. ill., 30 b/w tbl.
• Sets: Handbook of Zoology; Handbook of Zoology; Handbook of Zoology / Handbuch der Zoologie. Handbook of Zoology. Comparative Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Eutheria; Handbook of Zoology. Comparative Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Eutheria
• Series: Handbook of Zoology. Comparative Anatomy of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Eutheria
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology