George Howard Parker

Animal Colour Changes and Their Neurohumours

A Survey of Investigations 1910 1943

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1948, this book covers the main papers published on animal colour changes between 1910 and 1943.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781107613256
• ISBN-10: 1107613256
• Artikelnr.: 34447644

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Colour changes in cephalopods
3. Colour changes in crustaceans
4. Colour changes in vertebrates: Introduction. Cyclostomes. Elasmobranch fishes
5. Colour changes in vertebrates (continued): Teleost fishes
6. Colour changes in vertebrates (continued): Amphibians
7. Colour changes in vertebrates (concluded): Reptiles
8. Development and growth of vertebrate chromatophores
9. Genetics of vertebrate chromatophoral systems
10. Special activities of vertebrate chromatophores
Bibliography of colour changes
Index.