Zoologie Wirbellose

This helpful guide is self-contained, holding all of the information you will need for the preparation of histological slides of all types of insect tissues. It explains the essential procedures for their preparation, providing step-by-step information on each phase, for example, on fixation, dehydrating, clearing, embedding, and staining.

The laboratory manual explains the cutting-edge methodology carried out today, and provides a thorough collection of both historic

This helpful guide is self-contained, holding all of the information you will need for the preparation of histological slides of all types of insect tissues. It explains the essential procedures for their preparation, providing step-by-step information on each phase, for example, on fixation, dehydrating, clearing, embedding, and staining.

The laboratory manual explains the cutting-edge methodology carried out today, and provides a thorough collection of both historic

Blow fly maggots feast on moist, fresh cadaver tissue. Skin beetles prefer to feed on dried-out skin and hair. Cheese fly larvae graze on the corpse only when it turns to mush. Just what do these critters have to tell us about the carcasses they consume?

In sometimes gruesome but factual detail, forensic scientist Dr. Mark Benecke delves into the digestive tracts of bugs on dead bodies.

While forensic medicine focuses on determining cause of death; criminal biology seeks