Fascinating popular account of the intricate relationships between meat-eaters and humankind.

A unique summary of some of the most significant and exciting recent advances in arthropod endocrinology.

Physiological ecology has grown in importance as an area of biology in the past thirty years and integrates the diverse approaches used in the comparative biology of organisms ...

Striated muscle is the most common muscle type in the vertebrate body. This book describes in molecular terms the components and intracellular events responsible for the ...

Allometry investigates the effects of size on such variables as food intake, growth rates and age at first reproduction. New explanations are proposed for many previously ...