| Author: | R. E. Snodgrass |
| Release at: | 1997 |
| Pages: | 513 |
| Edition: | First Edition |
| Language: | English |
Description of Principles of Insect Morphology First Edition
Principles of Insect Morphology First Edition by R. E. Snodgrass is a great book for Entomology studies. Morphology, in the biological sense, is the science of form in living organisms. Anatomy is the determination of structural facts. Morphology seeks to find the reason for structure, and to understand the relation of different structural forms to one another. Morphology, therefore, must be intimate with function, since it must see forms as plastic physical adaptations to the work to be performed. A few physiological functions are basic to all organisms; they are essential to the continuance of matter in a living state.
The various structural types of organisms are special ways of accomplishing these functions, that is, for doing the same things in different ways or under different circumstances. Some represent improvements in the machinery along established lines; others represent changes or new ideas developed along new and divergent lines. The morphologist, therefore, though primarily a comparative anatomist, in order properly to develop his subject, must give attention to the working of the physical mechanisms with which he deals in his anatomical studies, he must look for the significance of structural modifications and innovations, and he must understand the basic physiological functions that underlie organic form.
Content of Principles of Insect Morphology First Edition
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2: GENERAL ORGANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 3: THE BODY WALL AND ITS DERIVATIVES
Chapter 4: BODY REGIONS, SCLERITES, AND SEGMENTATION
Chapter 5: THE SEGMENTAL APPENDAGES OF ARTHROPODS
Chapter 6: THE HEAD
Chapter 7: THE HEAD APPENDAGES
Chapter 8: THE THORAX
Chapter 9: THE THORACIC LEGS
Chapter 10: THE WINGS
Chapter 11: THE ABDOMEN
Chapter 12: THE ORGANS OF INGESTION
Chapter 13: THE ALIMENTARY CANAL
Chapter 14: THE ORGANS OF DISTRIBUTION, CONSERVATION, AND ELIMINATION
Chapter 15: THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Chapter 16: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Chapter 17: THE SENSE ORGANS
Chapter 18: THE INTERNAL ORGANS OF REPRODUCTION
Chapter 19: THE ORGANS OF COPULATION AND OVIPOSITION
INDEX
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