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The Biology of Neotropical Scorpions focuses on comprehensive aspects of scorpions of the Neotropical region, such as public health to biogeographic history. This innovative book is devoted to tackling that lack of knowledge and bringing together a bundle of studies to offer students, researchers, and professionals a comprehensive background to start their research with scorpions as model organisms.
Since 1990 the study of scorpions thrived following the tradition focusing on the Palearctic and Neartic fauna, leaving behind ancient and important scorpion fauna localised in the Neotropics. The Neotropical region encompasses the tropical areas from South America to central Mexico, including the Antilles, comprising different biomes in their extension, such as deserts, dry forests, savannas, mountain ranges, and rainforests. These myriad environments influenced scorpions from their venom composition, morphology, and their human interactions.
Many researchers from different areas and countries have generated a growing piece of information about Neotropical scorpions, but this still is fragmentary. This book innovates in the biology of scorpion fluorescence, chromosomal and molecular genetics, conservation ecology, and ethnobiology of scorpions from the perspective of traditional medicine.
Contents
What are the Neotropical scorpions?.- Allometry and the evolution of sexual size dimorphism in scorpions: insights from Neotropical species.- Mating or not? Reproductive aspects of sexual reproduction and parthenogenesis in Neotropical scorpions.- Luminescence and other optical characteristics of scorpion's exoskeleton.- Diversity, taxonomy, and distribution of Neotropical scorpions.- Advances in the phylogenomic relationships of Neotropical scorpions.- Fossil scorpions, with a focus on the Neotropical species.- Biogeography of Neotropical scorpions: an Overview.- Subterranean and troglomorphic scorpions from the Neotropics.- Functional morphology and predatory and defensive behaviour in Neotropical scorpions.- Sampling Techniques for Scorpions.- Cytogenetics of Neotropical Scorpions.- Neotropical scorpions as useful models for ecological studies.- Traditional treatment of scorpion stings in the Neotropics.- Neotropical scorpion venom.- Scorpionism in Neotropics: public health issues and prevention.- Managing scorpionism: envenomation, diagnostics, and therapeutic approaches.- Perspectives on biology and interactions with humans of Neotropical scorpions.
