3rd Edition, 2016

Invertebrates (Hardcover)

by Richard C. Brusca , Wendy Moore , Stephen M. Shuster

Category: Department of Biology

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Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press.

In the twelve years since publication of Invertebrates, Second Edition, fundamental shifts have occurred in our understanding of the origins and evolutionary relationships among protists and animals. These changes are largely due to the explosion of molecular phylogenetics and evo-devo research, emergence of the new field of animal genomics, major fossil discoveries in China, Australia, and elsewhere, and important new embryological and ultrastructural studies. As a result:

- New phyla have been described (e.g., Micrognathozoa, Xenacoelomorpha). - Old phyla have been collapsed into others (e.g., Sipuncula and Echiura are now placed within Annelida; acanthocephalans are now known to be highly modified, parasitic rotifers). - Phyla once thought to be deuterostomes are now part of the protostome clade (e.g., Chaetognatha, Phoronida, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda). - The Protostomia has been reorganized into two major clades known as Ecdysozoa and Spiralia.

For each of the thirty-two currently recognized phyla, Invertebrates, Third Edition, presents detailed classifications, revised taxonomic synopses, updated information on general biology and anatomy, and current phylogenetic hypotheses, organized with boxes and tables, and illustrated with abundant line drawings and new color photos. The chapters are organized around the "new animal phylogeny," while introductory chapters provide basic background information on the general biology of invertebrates. Two new coauthors have been added to the writing team, and twenty-two additional invertebrate zoologists have contributed to chapter revisions. This benchmark volume on our modern views of invertebrate biology should be in every zoologist's library.

Title	Invertebrates
Author	Richard C. Brusca , Wendy Moore , Stephen M. Shuster
Publisher	OUP USA (India)
ISBN	9781605353753
Edition	3rd Edition, 2016
Number of Pages	1104
Country	India
Language	English

Richard C. Brusca

About Richard C. Brusca Richard C. Brusca is a marine biologist, conservation ecologist, and Southwestern naturalist (see www.rickbrusca.com). He is also author of the fictional historical novel "In the Land of the Feathered Serpent" (see www.featheredserpent.online). Rick’s area of greatest research interest is the Sea of Cortez and the Sonoran Desert. He is Executive Director, Emeritus, of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and a Research Scientist at the University of Arizona. Rick is the author of over 200 research publications and 14 books, including the largest-selling text on invertebrate zoology (Invertebrates, Sinauer Associates; available in four languages) and the popular field guides Common Intertidal Invertebrates of the Gulf of California (UofA Press), A Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California (ASDM Press), and A Natural History the Santa Catalina Mountains, with an Introduction to the Madrean Sky Islands (ASDM Press). His books have won many awards, including "Best Textbook of the Year," "Southwest Book of the Year," and the coveted Tabasco Best Southwest Cookbook Award (for a cookbook he developed, edited and produced for the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum). Rick has been the recipient of more than 100 research grants from the National Science Foundation, NOAA, National Geographic Society, Charles Lindberg Foundation, National Park Service, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and many other agencies and foundations. He has served on panels and boards for many foundations and agencies, including the National Science Board, National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, NOAA, PEW Program in Conservation and the Environment, Public Broadcasting Service, IUCN Species Survival Commission, U.S. Department of the Interior, and others. He has served on more than a dozen non-profit boards and helped found four nonprofits. Although he has organized and conducted field expeditions throughout the world, in over 50 countries and on every continent, he has maintained his research programs in the Sonoran Desert and the Gulf of California for more than 40 years. He is an elected Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Linnean Society of London (FLS), and the California Academy of Sciences. In the "Land of the Feathered Serpent" is a tale of one man’s journey of discovery and self-realization (the story pays homage to Homer’s epic work, "The Odyssey"). The hero of Feathered Serpent gets caught up in the turbulent years of the 1980s in Central America, during the era of Sandinistas, CONTRAS, heavy-handed CIA activity, and a Guatemalan government campaign of genocide against the indigenous Maya. Odel Bernini’s journey takes place both in the physical terrain and in the landscape of his mind as he travels through the lowland jungles of the Petén rainforest and the 10,000-foot high sierras of Guatemala’s Maya realm. Bernini gets caught up with dirty politics and the CIA, is seduced by a dark siren, is nearly killed by a Cyclops, and is swept into the world of Maya mysticism. In the end, the scientist finds himself transformed in unexpected ways. See www.featheredserpent.online for more information.