The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future: The world of Medusa and her sisters
Springer | Ecology | October 9, 2016 | ISBN-10: 3319313037 | 855 pages | pdf | 48.99 mb
Editors: Goffredo, Stefano, Dubinsky, Zvy (Eds.)
A unique, topical, multi-level, interdisciplinary coverage of Cnidaria
Takes the reader through the earliest evolution of the taxon and the ramification of its taxonomy
Explores the Cnidaria genesis, evolution and systematics, its zoogeography, calcification, reproduction, symbiosis, photobiology, and global climate change, and gives insight in its immune system, medical aspects
Looks at the molecular and genomic make-up; ecology and physiology; use in jewelry; invasion of human imagination in art and myth
Bridges artificial schism between science, arts and Humanities