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Annotated References• Barnes, Robert D. Invertebrate Zoology, 5th ed. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1987.An authoritative general guide to the biology of all invertebrate groups, including the Mollusca. Itincludes interesting technical information about all aspects of the gastropods: evolution, ecology,anatomy, and physiology.• Brown, Luther, and Jerry F. Downhower. Analyses in Behavioral Ecology. Sinauer Associates,Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts, 1988.Useful for its clear descriptions (with examples) of many statistical tests used in studies of animalbehavior• Burch, John B. How To Know The Eastern Land Snails. Wm. C. Brown Company, Dubuque,Iowa, 1962.Indispensable for species identification of slugs and snails, and a good source of information aboutthe general biology and ecology of terrestrial gastropods.• Fernald, Merritt Lyndon. Gray’s Manual of Botany, a Handbook of the Flowering Plants andFerns of the Central and Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Van NostrandCompany, New York, 1970.Notes the origin (native or introduced) of nearly every plant found in the northeastern U.S.• Gill, John and Pauline Howell. “Food choice in the common snail (Helix aspersa),” Journal ofBiological Education 19 (1): 6-7, 1985.The source of both the general concept and most of the specific procedures of this laboratoryexercise.• Raven, Peter H., Ray F. Evert, and Susan E. Eichhorn. Biology of Plants, 5th ed. Worth Publishers,Inc., New York, 1992.An accessible reference describing the process of plant-- herbivore coevolution, with someinteresting examples of plant chemical defenses.©2000 CIBT Food Preferences of Slugs – Teachers Section Page 8
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