Sensing in Nature

Carlos López-Larrea
Histocompatibility Unit
Immunology Department
Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias
Oveido, Spain
and
Fundación Renal “Iñigo Álvarez de Toledo”
Madrid, Spain

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ISBN: 978-1-4614-1703-3
Pub Date: January 30, 2012
Pages: 338
Color Pages: 19
Figures: 52
Tables: 7

About this Book

  • • Provides a picture of the current state of knowledge of sensory systems in nature
  • • Presents an intersection of evolutionary biology, cell and molecular biology, physiology and genetics
  • • Written by a distinguished panel of specialists and is intended to be read by biologists, students, scientific investigators and the medical community

Biological systems are an emerging discipline that may provide integrative tools by assembling the hierarchy of interactions among genes, proteins and molecular networks involved in sensory systems. The aim of this volume is to provide a picture, as complete as possible, of the current state of knowledge of sensory systems in nature. The presentation in this book lies at the intersection of evolutionary biology, cell and molecular biology, physiology and genetics. Sensing in Nature is written by a distinguished panel of specialists and is intended to be read by biologists, students, scientific investigators and the medical community.


Table of Contents

1. Thermosensor Systems in Eubacteria
Wolfgang Schumann

2. Molecular Plant Volatile Communication
Jarmo K. Holopainen and James D. Blande

3. Primary Processes in Sensory Cells: Current Advances
Stephan Frings

4. Chemical Communication in Insects: The Peripheral Odor Coding System of Drosophila Melanogaster
Narelle E. Tunstall and Coral G. Warr

5. Eusocial Evolution and the Recognition Systems in Social Insects
Michelle O. Krasnec and Michael D. Breed

6. Odor and Pheromone Sensing Via Chemoreceptors
Minghong Ma

7. Identifying Self- and Nonself-Generated Signals: Lessons from Electrosensory Systems
Angel Ariel Caputi and Javier Nogueira

8. Magnetoreception
Roswitha Wiltschko and Wolfgang Wiltschko

9. The Molecular Basis of Mechanosensory Transduction
Kara L. Marshall and Ellen A. Lumpkin

10. The Evolution of Vertebrate Color Vision
Gerald H. Jacobs

11. Transforming the Vestibular System One Molecule at a Time: The Molecular and Developmental Basis of Vertebrate Auditory Evolution
Jeremy S. Duncan and Bernd Fritzsch

12. Neurobiology of Sociability
Heather K. Caldwell

13. Changing Senses: Chemosensory Signaling and Primate Evolution
Emily R. Liman

14. Molecules and Mating: Positive Selection and Reproductive Behavior in Primates
Leslie A. Knapp and Simeon H.S. Innocent

15. Immune Systems Evolution
Ramón M. Rodríguez, Antonio López-Vázquez and Carlos López-Larrea

16. Involvement of Sirtuins in Life-Span and Aging Related Diseases
Ulrich Mahlknecht and Barbara Zschoernig

17. Molecular Diversity of Dscam and Self-Recognition
Lei Shi and Tzumin Lee

18. The Neural Basis of Semantic and Episodic Forms of Self-Knowledge: Insights from Functional Neuroimaging
Arnaud D’Argembeau and Eric Salmon

19. Hallmarks of Consciousness
Ann B. Butler

 

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