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Vertebrates --- Chordata --- Cordés --- 591.4 --- 596 --- Chordates --- Animals --- Study of animal organs. Animal organology. Animal anatomy. Zootomy --- Vertebrata. Vertebrates in general --- Chordata. --- 596 Vertebrata. Vertebrates in general --- 591.4 Study of animal organs. Animal organology. Animal anatomy. Zootomy --- Chordate animals --- Cordés --- Bilateria

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Vertebrates --- Animal Population Groups --- Animals, Laboratory --- Fishes --- Chordata --- Animals --- Eukaryota --- Organisms --- Eucarya --- Eukarya --- Eukaryotes --- Eukaryotas --- Eukaryote --- Animalia --- Animal --- Metazoa --- Chordates --- Chordate --- Fish Proteins --- Laboratory Animals --- Animal, Laboratory --- Laboratory Animal --- Disease Models, Animal --- Biomedical Research --- Animal Population Group --- Population Group, Animal --- Population Groups, Animal --- Zoology --- Vertebrate --- 597 --- 597 Pisces. Fishes. Ichthyology --- Pisces. Fishes. Ichthyology

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"A current and cutting-edge reference, Current Therapy in Avian Medicine and Surgery takes the popular Current Therapy approach in providing succinct and clear information pertinent to the medical care of avian species. Most chapters include an up-to-date delivery of the current state of knowledge on their subject material, and provide practical approaches and thought processes applicable to diagnosis and therapy where appropriate. Information is always easy to find, with topics including the latest advances in internal medicine; behavioral medicine; anesthesia, analgesia, and surgery. Sections dedicated to welfare, conservation, and practice risk management explore important, but less commonly discussed aspects of avian practice; and the pattern recognition portion of the text offers readers a view of what companion bird conditions are likely to be seen in practice in different parts of the world. Written by a team of highly regarded contributors from around the world, this text helps readers, regardless of location and current knowledge, develop and augment skills in the medical and surgical care of avian species"--

Bird Diseases --- Birds --- Animals, Wild. --- Oiseaux --- diagnosis. --- therapy. --- surgery. --- Maladies --- Diagnostic. --- Thérapeutique. --- Chirurgie. --- Animal Diseases --- Vertebrates --- Diseases --- Chordata --- Animals --- Eukaryota --- Eucarya --- Eukarya --- Eukaryotes --- Eukaryotas --- Eukaryote --- Animalia --- Animal --- Metazoa --- Chordates --- Chordate --- Vertebrate --- Diseases, Animal --- Disease --- Veterinary Medicine --- Avian Diseases --- Avian Disease --- Bird Disease --- Disease, Avian --- Disease, Bird --- Diseases, Avian --- Diseases, Bird --- Aves --- Bird --- Avian Proteins --- veterinary --- Animals, Wild --- diagnosis --- therapy --- surgery

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The vertebrate integument arose about 450 million years ago as an ‘armour’ of dermal bony plates in small, jawless fish-like creatures, informally known as the ostracoderms. This book reviews the major changes that have occurred in the vertebrate integument from its beginnings to the present day. Critical questions concerning the origin, structure and functional biology of the bony integument are discussed and intrinsically linked to major steps in vertebrate evolution and phylogeny—the origin of jaws and the origin of teeth. The discussions include the origins of mineralization of major vertebrate skeletal components such as the dermatocranium, branchial arches and vertebral column. The advances that led to the origin of modern fishes and their phylogenetic development are reviewed and include the evolution of fins and replacement of the bony plates with several types of dermal scales. The evolution of reptiles saw a major transformation of the integument, with the epidermis becoming the protective outermost layer, from which the scales arose, while the dermis lay below it.  The biological significance of the newly-evolved β-keratin in reptilian scales, among the toughest natural materials known, is discussed in the context of its major contribution to the great success of reptiles and to the evolution of feathers and avian flight. The dermis in many vertebrates is strengthened by layers of oppositely oriented cross-fibres, now firmly entrenched as a design principle of biomechanics. Throughout the book conventional ideas are discussed and a number of new hypotheses are presented in light of the latest developments. The long evolutionary history of vertebrates indicates that the significance of the Darwinian concept of “survival of the fittest” may be overstated, including in our own mammalian origins, and that chance often plays a major role in evolutionary patterns. Extensive illustrations are included to support the verbal descriptions. Professor Theagarten Lingham-Soliar is in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Anatomy, Comparative. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Life sciences. --- Paleontology. --- Vertebrates. --- Vertebrates -- Anatomy. --- Vertebrates -- Evolution. --- Vertebrates -- Physiology. --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Vertebrates --- Chordata --- Anatomy. --- Chordate animals --- Chordates --- Evolutionary biology. --- Life Sciences. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Bilateria --- Paleontology . --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Vertebrata --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Historical geology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures

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Animal psychology and neurophysiology --- Mammals --- Veterinary pathology --- Animal Diseases --- Equidae --- Diseases --- Perissodactyla --- Vertebrates --- Chordata --- Animals --- Eukaryota --- Organisms --- Horses --- Horse Diseases --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Veterinary Medicine --- Equine Diseases --- Disease, Equine --- Disease, Horse --- Diseases, Equine --- Diseases, Horse --- Equine Disease --- Horse Disease --- Equus caballus --- Equus przewalskii --- Horse, Domestic --- Domestic Horse --- Domestic Horses --- Horse --- Horses, Domestic --- Eucarya --- Eukarya --- Eukaryotes --- Eukaryotas --- Eukaryote --- Animalia --- Animal --- Metazoa --- Chordates --- Chordate --- Vertebrate --- Mammalia --- Mammal --- Perissodactylas --- Ass --- Equus asinus --- Asses --- Donkeys --- Mules --- Zebras --- Donkey --- Mule --- Zebra --- Diseases, Animal --- Disease --- veterinary