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The first atlas in many years giving researchers a good visual reference of the status of their cell lines. Given the increasing importance of well de…

The first training manual for new staff working in BSL3/4 labs. This guide is based on a course developed in 2007 by the EU COST action group 28b whic…

Sexual selection is recognized as being responsible for some of the most extravagant morphologies and behaviors in the natural world, as well as a dri…

The Amazon Basin contains the largest and most diverse tropical rainforest in the world. Besides the Andes and the Atlantic Ocean, the rainforest is b…

The diversity of animal signals has been widely documented, and the generality of animal signals also tantalizingly suggests that there are common mec…

Technological advances have greatly increased the potential for, and practicability of, using medical neurotechnologies to revolutionize how a wide ar…

Molecular Aspects of Aging: Understanding Lung Aging covers recent research in the mechanisms that contribute to cellular senescence. Covering univers…

Vaccinology: An Essential Guide outlines in a clear, practical format the entire vaccine development process, from conceptualization and basic immunol…

Molecular anthropology uses molecular genetic methods to address questions and issues of anthropological interest. More specifically, molecular anthro…

Cell assays include all methods of measurements on living cells. Confined for a long time to research laboratories, these emerging methods have, in re…

Handbook of Agricultural Entomology by Helmut van Emden is a landmark publication for students and practitioners of entomology applied to agriculture …

This is the second edition of the successful textbook written by the prize-winning scientist Andreas Ziegler, former President of the German Chapter o…

The simplicity and lack of redundancy in their regulatory genes have made ascidians one of the most useful species in studying developmental genomics.…

Human Neuroanatomy, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive overview of the anatomy of the human brain and spinal cord. The book is written at a level to be of…

An overview of the different approaches to cancer risk assessment of environmental factors – including «-omics» technologies, discussing the strengths…

Stem cells, regenerative medicine, and translational medicine, are all areas of burgeoning basic research and clinical application. This dictionary in…

Integrative Organismal Biology synthesizes current understandings of the causes and consequences of individual variation at the physiological, behavio…

This fifth edition of the successful, long-selling classic has been completely revised and expanded, omitting some topics on obsolete DNA electrophore…

The bestselling introduction to bioinformatics and genomics – now in its third edition Widely received in its previous editions, Bioinformatics and Fu…

Evolution on islands differs in a number of important ways from evolution on mainland areas. Over millions of years of isolation, exceptional and some…

Co-published with the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Forensic Science presents comprehensive international discussion of key issues and future…

Pollinators play a vital role in ecosystem health and are essential to ensuring food security. With declines in both managed and wild pollinator popul…

Winner of the IENE Project Award 2016. This authoritative volume brings together some of the world’s leading researchers, academics, practitioners and…

This book discusses the community of microbial species (the microbiota, microbiome), which inhabits the large bowel of humans. Written from the perspe…

Despite the substantial interest in landscape genetics from the scientific community, learning about the concepts and methods underlying the field rem…

Nanoparticles are the building blocks for nanotechnology; they are better built, long lasting, cleaner, safer, and smarter products for use across ind…

To form a strong grounding in human-related sciences it is essential for students to grasp the fundamental concepts of statistical analysis, rather th…

The sounds produced by geophonic, biophonic and technophonic sources are relevant to the function of natural and human modified ecosystems. Passive re…

New and expanded for its second edition, Environmental Microbiology: From Genomes to Biogeochemistry¸ Second Edition, is a timely update to a classic …

This text examines the impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems, past, present and future. It especially considers the interactions between c…

The abundance of insects can change dramatically from generation to generation; these generational changes may occur within a growing season or over a…

Selected by Forbes.com as one of the 12 best books about birds and birding in 2016 This much-anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Bird Biology…

Molecular Neuroendocrinology: From Genome to Physiology, provides researchers and students with a critical examination of the steps being taken to dec…

This newly updated edition covers a wide range of topics relevant to fungal biology, appealing to academia and industry Fungi are extremely important …

During the nineteenth century, ivory hunting caused a substantial decrease of elephant numbers in southern Africa. Soon after that, populations of man…

Forest trees and shrubs play vital ecological roles, reducing the carbon load from the atmosphere by using carbon dioxide in photosynthesis and by the…

Sexual dysfunction affects men of all ages and incidence rates are expected to double by 2025 resulting in a major health burden. Though normal sexual…

Biocultural or biosocial anthropology is a research approach that views biology and culture as dialectically and inextricably intertwined, explicitly …

Cytogenetic Laboratory Management: Chromosomal, FISH and Microarray-Based Best Practices and Procedures is a practical guide that describes how to dev…

Volume One of the thoroughly revised and updated guide to the study of biodiversity in insects The second edition of Insect Biodiversity: Science and …

Insect parasitoids are a fascinating group of animals in many respects. Perhaps the most fascinating point is that these insects, in the course of the…

This update to the award-winning The Origins of Modern Humans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence covers the most accepted common theories concerni…

Developmental Approaches to Human Evolution encapsulates the current state of evolutionary developmental anthropology. This emerging scientific field …

Sensitivity to scales is one of the key challenges in environmental governance. Climate change, food production, energy supply, and natural resource m…

Fully integrative approach to the socibiology of caviomorph rodents Brings together research on social systems with that on epigenetic, neurendocrine …