Biology of the Invertebrates, Fourth Edition - Hardcover

Pechenik, Jan A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070122040 ISBN 13: 9780070122048

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 1999

Synopsis

This textbook is the most concise and readable invertebrates book in terms of detail and pedagogy (other texts do not offer boxed readings, a second color, end of chapter questions, or pronunciation guides). All phyla of invertebrates are covered (comprehensive) with an emphasis on unifying characteristics of each group.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan A. Pechenik is Professor of Biology at Tufts University, where he has been teaching and doing research since 1978. He obtained his B.A. in Zoology from Duke University and his Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. To date he has published over 50 papers on the development and metamorphosis of marine invertebrate animals, including snails, blue mussels, crabs, barnacles, polychaetes, bryozoans, and parasitic flatworms.

Professor Pechenik has also published a successful textbook on invertebrate biology, currently in its 3rd edition, and chairs the Division of Invertebrate Zoology within the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology (formerly the American Society of Zoologists). Committed to teaching as well as research, his highly praised book on this subject, A Short Guide to Writing About Biology, has just appeared in a fourth edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0070122040
• ISBN 13: 9780070122048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 592