Research Catalog

Title

Arthropod relationships / edited by R.A. Fortey and R.H. Thomas.

Publication

London : Chapman & Hall, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Fortey, Richard A.
• Thomas, R. H. (Richard H.), 1954-

Description

xii, 383 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

The arthropods contain more species than any other animal group, but the evolutionary pathways which led to their current diversity are still a issue of controversy. Arthropod Relationships provides an overview of our current understanding, responding to the new data arising from sequencing DNA, the discovery of new Cambrian fossils as direct evidence of early arthropod history, and developmental genetics. These new areas of research have stimulated a reconsideration of classical morphology and embryology. Arthropod Relationships is the first synthesis of the current debate to emerge: not since the volume edited by Gupta was published in 1979 has the arthropod phylogeny debate been considered in this depth and breadth. This book should be read by evolutionary biologists, palaeontologists, developmental geneticists and invertebrate zoologists. It will have a special interest for post-graduate students working in these fields.

Series Statement

The Systematics Association special volume series ; 55

Uniform Title

Systematics Association special volume ; no. 55.

Subject

• Arthropoda > Evolution
• Evolution
• Gliederfüßer
• Phylogenie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Arthropodes > Évolution

Genre/Form

• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Konferenzschrift.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine derived contents note: List of contributors. Preface. 1. Bodyplans, phyla and arthropods; J.W. Valentine, H. Hamilton. 2. The phylogenetic position of the Arthropoda; C. Nielsen. 3. A defence of arthropod polyphyly; G. Fryer. 4. Hox genes and annelid-arthropod relationships; M.H. Dick. 5. Arthropod and annelid relationships re-examined; D.J. Eernisse. 6. Evolutionary correlates of arthropod tagmosis: scrambled legs; M.A. Wills, D.E.G. Briggs, R.A. Fortey. 7. Theories, patterns, and reality: game plan for arthropod phylogeny; M.J. Emerson, F.R. Schram. 8. Sampling, groundplans, total evidence and the systematics of arthropods; W.C. Wheeler. 9. Arthropod phylogeny: taxonomic congruence, total evidence and conditional combination approaches to morphological and molecular data sets; J. Zrzavý, V. Hypsa, M. Vlásková. 10. The place of tardigrades in arthropod evolution; R.A. Dewel, W.C. Dewel. 11. Stem group arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna of North Greenland; G.E. Budd. 12. Cambrian `Orsten'-type arthropods and the phylogeny of Crustacea; D. Walossek, K.J. Müller. 13. Comparative limb morphology in major crustacean groups: the coxa-basis joint in postmandibular limbs; G. Boxshall. 14. Crustacean phylogeny inferred from 18S rDNA; T. Spears, L.G. Abele. 15. A phylogeny of recent and fossil Crustacea derived from morphological characters; M.A. Wills. 16. The fossil record and evolution of the Myriapoda; W.A. Shear. 17. The early history and phylogeny of the chelicerates; J.A. Dunlop, P.A. Selden. 18. Problem of the basal dichotomy of the winged insects; A.P. Rasnitsyn. 19. Arthropod phylogeny and `basal' morphological structures; J. Kukalova-Peck. 20. Advances and problems in insect phylogeny; R. Willmann. 21. The groundplan and basal diversification of the hexapods; N.P. Kristensen. 22. Phylogenetic relationships between higher taxa of tracheate arthropods; O. Kraus. 23. Myriapodinsect relationships as opposed to an insectcrustacean sister group relationship; W. Dohle. 24. Cleavage, germ band formation and head segmentation: the ground pattern of the Euarthropoda; G. Scholtz. 25. Homology and parallelism in arthropod sensory processing; D.-E. Nilsson, D. Osorio. 26. The organization and development of the arthropod ventral nerve cord: insights into arthropod relationships; P.M. Whitington, J.P. Bacon.

ISBN

• 0412754207
• 9780412754203

LCCN

97068214

OCLC

• ocm38403492
• 38403492
• SCSB-9642836

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library