{"product_id":"starfish-9781421407876","title":"Starfish","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWasson, Stephen A. Watts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColor photographs and detailed black-and-white illustrations will aid the layperson looking for basic information, but the extensive references speak to this volume's research value. Library Journal If you want to get serious about starfish, this book is a must for you. -- David Burton International Zoo News Offers a comprehensive review of their biology and ecology. It perfectly integrates the research conducted during the past decades, updating the still-quoted synthesis of Hyman (1955), and complimenting the serial 'Echinoderm Studies' that was last published in 2001... It will be interesting to the widest audience, and is definitively an invitation to a compelling reading. -- Loic Villier Marine Biology Review This scholarly volume will be most useful to researchers on echinoderm biology and teachers of marine invertebrate biology... Recommended. Choice A valuable source of information on sea stars... Useful for all who deal with studies of sea stars. -- A.V. Kalachev \u0026amp; V.I. Kalinin Russian Journal of Marine Biology This book provides both very useful general knowledge on the class of Asteroidea and a very comprehensive understanding of the biology and the ecology of starfish through detailed properties of structure and function... [It] will be particularly useful for students and teachers, and is really welcome in our overspecialized world. -- Dominique Davoult Cahiers de Biologie Marine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Comparative Biology and Ecology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Phylogeny of the Asteroidea\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Asteroid Arm\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Functional Biology of Asteroid Tube Feet\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Reproduction in Asteroidea\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Asteroid Evolutionary Developmental Biology and Ecology\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Larval Ecology, Settlement, and Recruitment of Asteroids\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Ecological Role of Sea Stars from Populations to Meta-ecosystems\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Chemistry and Ecological Role of Starfish Secondary Metabolites\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Steroids in Asteroidea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Integrative Biology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Astropecten\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Luidia\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Odontaster validus\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Acanthaster planci\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Oreaster reticulatus\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Heliaster helianthus\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Pisaster ochraceus\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. Asterias amurensis\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. Leptasterias polaris\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. Coscinasterias\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. Echinaster\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReferences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529526157655,"sku":"9781421407876","price":82.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421407876.jpg?v=1731875960","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/starfish-9781421407876","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}