Biology, Life Sciences

Directly linked to Oxford's bestselling DP Science resources, this new Course Preparation resource thoroughly prepares students to meet the demands...

A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans The popular consensus on mate choice has long been tha...

Recent years have witnessed an avalanche of new knowledge implicating free radicals in virtually every aspect of biology and medicine. It is now ax...

This continuing series gathers and presents original research results on the leading edge of medicine and biology. Each article has been carefully ...

A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written, featuring new fractal diagrams, six new 'tales' and the lat...

The ability to observe the world around us through sight provides us with many advantages we may take for granted daily. We are able to recognise a...

In recent years there has been tremendous progress in the area of tissue engineering research. This two-volume set, containing Smart Materials for ...

Rapeseed is the traditional name of a large winter or spring annual oilseed crop from the Brassicaceae family, and is related to mustard, cabbage, ...

This book focuses on network structures in biological systems and in human society. The term network structure is used in literature with at leas...

The fifth installment of The Year in Evolutionary Biology series includes reviews on: gene loss, thermogenesis, and the origin of birds; sexual sel...

This volume comprises contributions from faculty and postdoctoral finalists of the 2011 New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Sci...

Immunology has rapidly evolved as a field, in particular, by moving beyond merely understanding the basic mechanisms of the immune system to develo...

This book aims to further advance the field of reintroduction biology beyond the considerable progress made since the formation of the IUCN/SSC Re-...

Easily Get Started with Biological ExperimentsIntroduction to Experimental Biophysics - A Laboratory Guide presents wet lab methods for courses in ...

Covering a key topic due to growing research into the role of signaling mechanisms in toxicology, this book focuses on practical approaches for inf...

Protein carbonylation has attracted the interest of a great number of laboratories since the pioneering studies at the Earl Stadtmans lab at NIH st...

Ecosystem services are the resources and processes supplied by natural ecosystems which benefit humankind (for example, pollination of crops by ins...

The variety of the mycological world is far greater than most people imagine. Tens of thousands of fungal species have been described and many more...