Various Larval Forms of Different Animals: Characteristics and Importance of Various Larva - Couverture souple

Patra, Samir; Khatua, Tapan; Singh, Mukesh

 
9786139947621: Various Larval Forms of Different Animals: Characteristics and Importance of Various Larva

Synopsis

This book represents various larval characteristics of animals and their significance. Larva is a self feeding and free swimming stage of existence that bears least resemblance to the adults. They are generally not looked after by their structural as well as physiological changes to attain the adulthood. The process is called metamorphosis and changes are called metamorphic changes. Organisms processing larval stages lay minute eggs with a very little (microlecithal) or no yolk material. Significance of larval stages they help in the dispersal of species, the larval stages are useful in finding the homologies and affinity of various groups. and the feeding and reproductive nature or evolutionary trends may be understood.The following book represents a total numbers of 63 larval forms, their Systematic position, Size Distribution, Habitat, Morphological characters, Special behavior and dictate the figure for readers as they easily understood. Some larva are economically and ecologically importants, though some shows various important behaviors like retrogressive metamorphosis (eg. Ascidian tadpole) and neoteny (eg. Axolotl).

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9786202528115: Various Larval Forms of Different Animals

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ISBN 10 :  6202528117 ISBN 13 :  9786202528115
Editeur : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2020
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