Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Volume 9, Part B, Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny - Hardcover

9780471999096: Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Volume 9, Part B, Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny

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ISBN 10: 0471999091 ISBN 13: 9780471999096

Publisher: Wiley, 2000

Includes significant advances in knowledge of spermatozoalultrastructure of priapulida; mollusca: relict taxa; Polychaetaincluding pogonophora and myzostomida; euclitellata; nematoda;tardigrada; onychophora and chelicerta.

It is part of the ninth volume in the series: Progress in MaleGamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny.

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Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates Volume IX-B: Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny Series Edited by K.G. Adiyodi and R.G. Adiyodi Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India and Department of Zoology, Calicut University, India Volume Edited by B.G.M. Jamieson Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia The story of invertebrate gametes — their structure, origin, composition, physiology, and production mechanisms — was told in Volumes I and II; how accessory sex gland secretions facilitate their packaging, storage, survival, and delivery in Volume III; events leading to and following the union of gametes such as insemination, sperm-egg interaction, fertilization, development, embryonic nutrition, eclosion, and larval settlement and metamorphosis in Volume IV; different aspects of invertebrate sexology such as patterns of sexuality, sex determination, sexual differentiation and maturation, sexual receptivity and behaviour, and sex changes in Volume V; asexual propagation and regeneration, parthenogenesis, special modes of reproduction such as polyembryony and paedogenesis, fecundity, sterility, breeding cycles, reproductive strategies (life-history tactics), and interspecific reproductive isolation in Volume VI; molecular and other aspects of differentiation and development of selected invertebrate groups in Volume VII; regulation of reproduction in representative acoelomates, pseudocoelomates, and schizocoelomates in Volume VIII. Volume IX, "Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny", records progress in our knowledge on the subject and provides much new information. Other volumes in the series Volume I Oogenesis, Oviposition, and Oosorption Volume II Spermatogenesis and Sperm Function Volume III Accessory Sex Glands Volume IV Fertilization, Development, and Parental Care (Parts A and B) Volume V Sexual Differentiation and Behaviour Volume VI Asexual Propagation and Reproductive Strategies (Parts A and B) Volume VII Progress in Developmental Biology Volume VIII Progress in Reproductive Endocrinology

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About 95 per cent of all known animal species are invertebrates. A knowledge of their sexual, reproductive, and developmental biology is essential for the effective management of species that are economically useful to man or are harmful to him, his crops, and livestock. This treatise is the first to cover all aspects of reproduction and development of the entire spectrum of invertebrates?terrestrial, marine, freshwater, brackish-water, free-living, and parasitic. The chapters, by leading world experts in their fields, are up-to-date and informative, and suggest a number of problems for future research. Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny (issued in parts A-C) is the ninth volume in the series. Volume IX, Part B Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny Edited by B.G.M. Jamieson Contents Preface to the Progress Series; Preface to Volume IX B; Contributors; Priapulida, Volker Storch, Claudia Kempendorf, Robert P. Higgins, Thomas C. Shirley, and Barrie G.M Jamieson; Mollusca: Relict Taxa, John M. Healy; Polychaeta, Including Pogonophora and Myzostomida, Gregory W. Rouse; Euclitellata, Marco Ferraguti; Nematoda, Jean-Lou Justine and Barrie G.M. Jamieson; Tardigrada, Lorena Rebecchi, Alessandra Guidi, and Roberto Bertolani; Onychophora, Volker Storch, Hilke Ruhberg, Gerd Alberti, and Barrie G.M. Jamieson; Chelicerata, Gerd Alberti; Subject Index; Species Index.

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