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Echinodermata Hardback -
by Valeria Matranga (Editor)
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- Title Echinodermata
- Author Valeria Matranga (Editor)
- Binding Hardback
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used
- Pages 275
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer
- Publication date pp. xxiii + 275 1st Edition
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6281834
- ISBN 9783540244028 / 3540244026
- Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9.44 x 6.54 x 0.78 in (23.98 x 16.61 x 1.98 cm)
- Category Science
- Dewey Decimal Code 572.8
- Quantity available 1
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First line
Echinoderms have been used as embryos since the dawn of cell biology as model systems to study basic phenomena such as mitosis, cell division, differentiation, and organ formation, and are linked to the great cell biologists of the 19th and 20th centuries; among many others, Boveri, Heilbrunn, Mazia, Monroy, Wilson, Hertwig, and Brachet may be cited.
From the rear cover
Members of the phylum Echinodermata are among the most familiar marine invertebrates. Forms such as the sea star have become virtually a symbol of sea life. Used in ancient oriental medicine as a source of bioactive compounds, sea cucumbers, sea stars and sea urchins are now used for the extraction and purification of cytotoxic, haemolytic, antiviral, antifungal, antifouling, antimicrobial and even anti-tumoural activities. In addition, of the five extant classes, sea urchins and sea cucumbers are important economic resources for current fishery and aquaculture. Molecular and cell biological techniques described in this book are, on the one hand, indicative of the improvements made over the years and, on the other, stress the need of their further exploitation for the sustainable production of bioactive compounds and their application in biomedicine.
