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Numerous animal groups, whether primitive or advanced, support or protect their bodies by the growth of mineralized tissues. This monumental, two-volume reference work surveys the patterns, processes, and evolutionary trends of biomineralization throughout the animal kingdom from the perspective of the world's leading experts. It presents the reader with a synthesis of existing information, as well as results, previously in published on such aspects as processes of biomineralization, biomechanics, environmental and biological controls, microstructure and mineralogy, geological applications and evolutionary trends. The work is divided into two volumes. The first presents the text plus a unified glossary and atlas of skeletal microstructure, including all descriptive terms of skeletal microstructure used since 1801. These terms are defined using a standard reference terminology compiled by the authors of the text. Volume 1 also has a comprehensive bibliography of skeletal biomineralization with an accompanying subject index. Volume 2 is an Atlas of skeletal biomineralization, with 200 scanning electron micrographs of skeletal microstructures in all major invertebrate and vertebrate groups. Both volumes are extensively indexed. This book should be of interest to palaeontologist, zoologists, evolutionary biologists.

Table of Contents:
Volume One: Text and Bibliography. Biomineralization mechanisms. Biomechanics of mineralized skeletons. Calcium carbonate spicules in the invertebrates. Calcium phosphate structures in invertebrates and protozoans. Corals and coralline sponges. Biomineralization in the lophophorates. Arthropod exoskeletons. Cephalopod shell structure and general mechanisms of shell formation. Shell structure of the gastropoda excluding Archaeogastropoda. Evolutionary significance of shell microstructure in the Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorphia and Isofilibranchia (Bivalvia: Mollusca). Shell microstructure data for the bivalvia. Biomineralization in echinoderms. Conodont apatite: structure and geochemistry. Protochordate biomineralization. Microstructure and mineralization of vertebrate skeletal tissues. Vertebrate dental structures. Oxygen and carbon isotopes: utility for environmental interpretation of recent and fossil invertebrate skeletons. The "vital effect" on skeletal trace element content as exemplified by magnesium. Examples of the ontogenetic approach to skeletal composition. Amino acid racemization: applications in chemical taxonomy and chronostratigraphy of quaterary fossils. Volume Two: Atlas and index. Introduction. Bivalvia (Molusca). Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Archaeogastropoda and paragastropoda (Mollusca). Diagenetic modifications of shell microstructure in the Terebratulida (Brachiopida, Articulata). Brachiopoda and Bryozoa. Arthropoda (Crustacea and Trilobita). Corals and coralline sponges. Echniodermata. Vertebrate dental structures. Conodontophorida. References cited. Taxonomic index.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780442006679
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Height: 297 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 3800 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0442006675
  • Publisher Date: /04/1991
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Patterns, Processes and Evolutionary Trends
  • Width: 210 mm


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