Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates: Progress in Asexual Reproduction

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, fresh–water, 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 Asexual Reproduction is the eleventh volume in the series.

Spis treści:
Preface to the Progress Series.
Preface to Volume XI.
Obituary.
Contributors.
Microorganism–induced Parthenogenesis (H. Braig, et al.).
Clonal or Sexual Reproduction in Parasites? Recent Advances in Molecular Understanding (D. Rollinson and J. Stothard).
Geographic Parthenogenesis in Terrestrial Invertebrates: Generalist or Specialist Clones? (E. Parker Jr).
Senescence or Rejuvenation in Asexual Metazoans (D. Martinez).
Asexual Reproduction in the Hydrozoa (Cnidaria) (F. Boero, et al.).
Genetic Mosaics and Chimeras (R. Hughes).
Resource Allocation in Asexual Invertebrates (V. Forbes).
Astogeny and Allometry of Modular Colonial Organisms (H. Lasker and J. Sanchez).
Population Processes in Modular Benthic Invertebrates (R. Karlson).
Clones and Metapopulations (B. Okamura, et al.).
Subject Index.
Species Index.

Nota biograficzna:
DR. K.G. ADIYODI, formerly Professor of Physiology and Dean, Faculty of Science, Calicut University, Kerala, India and Vice–Chancellor, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, is now Public Service Commissioner to Government of India, New Delhi. A distinguished invertebrate reproductive biologist, who gave the discipl ine of invertebrate reproductive biology a global distinctiveness and identity of its own, Dr. K.G. Adiyodi is Founder Secretary of the International Society of Inverebrate Reproduction, Founder Editor–in–Chief of the International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, and Founder President of the Indian Society of Invertebrate Reproduction.
DR. RITA G. ADIYODI, formerly Rhodes Visiting Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford (1976–78), is Professor of Zoology at Calicut University. She served as President of the Crustacean Reprobiology and Aquaculture Bureau of India and as Vice–President of the Indian Society of Invertebrate Reproduction. Dr. Rita Adiyodi represented India on the International Committee of Comparative Endocrinology.
The Adiyodis have worked extensively, over the past three decades, on the endocrinology and physiology of growth and reproduction of arthropods, chiefly crustaceans.
DR. ROGER NEVILLE HUGHES is Lloyd Roberts Professor, Professor of Zoology, in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor. While maintaining wide interest in evolutionary and behavioural ecology, he has focussed particularly on the biology of clonal animals. By adopting the bryozoan Celloporela hyalina which can be propogated sexually and asexually, as a model experimental organism, he is able to investigate a range of fundamental problems including gender allocation in simultaneous hermaphrodites, the effect of temperature on body size and the contribution of cryptic speciation to marine diversity.

Okładka tylna:
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 i nvertebrates—terrestrial, marine, fresh–water, 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 Asexual Reproduction is the eleventh volume in the series.