ZooKeys 370 (2014) Special Issue. Ir al enlace.





For wood frogs in Alaska’s interior, Arctic weather is more than a temporary, headline-grabbing phenomenon. Frigid temperatures are the norm for months at a time. But these tiny amphibians cope quite well and represent an extreme in freeze-tolerant organisms, researchers reported here Monday at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Leer más.
Marine turtles are among the most endangered species of the world ocean. For a better protection of these fascinating animals, scientists try to understand why turtles return to their birthplace in order to reproduce after rather long distance migrations. Leer más.
One of the major experimental advances in recent decades has been the battery of methods capable of functionally validating hypotheses regarding the molecular networks that regulate biological processes. For biologists, these emerging methods allow us to move beyond descriptive and correlational studies to new dimensions where we can experimentally validate our observations. Leer más.
En esta edición se describen 850 especies, 200 más que en la primera edición. En esta segunda edición las imágenes y los mapas de distribución se presentan con un mayor tamaño. Jean Raffaëlli no tiene editor y la edición es limitada.Los interesados deben pedir directamente el libro enviando un correo electrónico al autor: jean.raffaelli@laposte.net Precio: 80 euros |