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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 …

The second edition of this concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitan…

The late Navjot Sodhi conceived this book as a way of bringing to the forefront of our conservation planning for the tropics the views of people who w…

As medical schools struggle to fit ever more material into a fixed amount of time, students need to approach the study of anatomy through a succinct, …

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 …

The only book available in the area of forward-time population genetics simulations—applicable to both biomedical and evolutionary studies The rapid i…

Written by a leading expert on Aspirin-related research, this is the most comprehensive treatise on the pharmacological effects and clinical applicati…

Comprehensive coverage of the entire induced pluripotent stem cell basic work flow Pluripotent stem cells (PSC) can divide indefinitely, self-renew, a…

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

A rapidly growing interdisciplinary field, disease ecology merges key ideas from ecology, medicine, genetics, immunology, and epidemiology to study ho…

This is the second edition of Freshwater Algae; the popular guide to temperate freshwater algae. This book uniquely combines practical information on …

Introduces all of the essential cell biology and developmental biology background for the study of stem cells This book gives you all the important in…

The search for altenative, renewable sources of fuel and energy from plants, algae, and waste materials has catalyzed in recent years. With the growin…

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

Large and intense wildfires are integral to the globally important boreal forest biome. While much is known about boreal wildfires, the focus on fores…

Easy to read, yet comprehensive, this is the perfect introduction into the molecular basis of disease and the novel treatment options that have become…

Food webs have now been addressed in empirical and theoretical research for more than 50 years. Yet, even elementary foundational issues are still hot…

This book combines recent information and discoveries in the field of human molecular biology and human molecular evolution. It provides an interdisci…

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

Provides an accessible introduction to urban ecology, using established ecological theory to identify generalities in the complexity of urban environm…

Local Planning for Terror and Disaster gives voice to experts in key fields involved with local preparedness, assessing the quality of preparedness in…

The single comprehensive treatment of the field, from the leading members of the Society of Ethnobiology The field of ethnobiology—the study of relati…

Plant Cells and Their Organelles provides a comprehensive overview of the structure and function of plant organelles. The text focuses on subcellular …

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

Seascape Ecology provides a comprehensive look at the state-of-the-science in the application of landscape ecology to the seas and provides guidance f…

Written by an author with longstanding experience in the ecology of insects and birds and with a stellar academic record in molecular life sciences, t…

Computational and high-throughput methods, such as genomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics, known collectively as “-omics,” have been used to study …

Insects represent over half of the planet’s biological diversity. This popular textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to this extraordinary di…

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

The analysis and interpretation of data is fundamental to the subject of genetics and forms a compulsory part of the undergraduate genetics curriculum…

With the health of the world’s oceans threatened as never before, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) play a vital…

Mastery of ECG interpretation is achieved not only by pattern recognition, but equally importantly, by a clear, practical understanding of how electri…

Infectious disease surveillance has evolved at an extraordinary pace during the past several decades, and continues to do so. It is increasingly used …

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

Medical mycology deals with those infections in humans, and animals resulting from pathogenic fungi. As a separate discipline, the concepts, methods, …

Invasive species have a critical and growing effect upon natural areas. They can modify, degrade, or destroy wildland ecosystem structure and function…

Animal genetics is a foundational discipline in the fields of animal science, animal breeding, and veterinary sciences. While genetics underpins the h…

A modern, evaluative, and integrative approach to diagnostic microbiology encouraging problem-solving in the clinical laboratory context through the u…

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

Invertebrates perform such vital roles in global ecosystems—and so strongly influence human wellbeing—that biologist E.O. Wilson was prompted to descr…

Written by leading experts in the field as part of an interdisciplinary pan-European research program funded by the EU, the results provided in this b…

Ecosystem services are the resources and processes supplied by natural ecosystems which benefit humankind (for example, pollination of crops by insect…

A thought-provoking exploration of deleterious mutations in the human genome and their effects on human health and wellbeing Despite all of the elabor…