Harvestmen: The Biology of OpilionesRicardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Glauco Machado, Gonzalo Giribet This is the first comprehensive treatment of a major order of arachnids featuring more than 6,000 species worldwide, familiar in North America as daddy-longlegs but known scientifically as the Opiliones, or harvestmen. The 25 authors provide a much-needed synthesis of what is currently known about these relatives of spiders, focusing on basic conceptual issues in systematics and evolutionary ecology, making comparisons with other well-studied arachnid groups, such as spiders and scorpions. |
Contents
Thomas S Briggs Naturhistorisches Museum in Wien | 7 |
Plamen G Mitov Locked Bag 49 Welshpool 6986 | 8 |
Cokendolpher Instituto de Biociências | 13 |
4 | 73 |
5 | 89 |
Abel Pérez González | 176 |
Jason A Dunlop | 247 |
6 | 263 |
Defense Mechanisms | 374 |
Social Behavior | 400 |
Reproduction | 414 |
13 | 425 |
Development | 455 |
Ecophysiology | 473 |
15 | 485 |
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Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha,Glauco Machado,Gonzalo Giribet Limited preview - 2007 |
Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha,Glauco Machado,Gonzalo Giribet Limited preview - 2007 |