Annelids in Modern Biology

By Daniel H. Shain

Annelids offer a diversity of experimentally accessible features making them a rich experimental subject across the biological sciences, including evolutionary development, neurosciences and stem cell research.

This volume introduces the Annelids and their utility in evolutionary developmental biology, neurobiology, and environmental/ecological studies, including extreme environments. The book demonstrates the variety of fields in which Annelids are already proving to be a useful experimental system. Describing the utility of Annelids as a research model, this book is an invaluable resource for all researchers in the field.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470344210
• ISBN13: 9780470344217
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.0"