Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Progress in Asexual Reproduction Hardcover - 2001
by K. G. Adiyodi (Editor); Rita G. Adiyodi (Editor); R. N. Hughes (Volume Editor)
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Until very recently, parthenogenesis had been regarded as an inherited trait of an organism, a species or even an entire order.
From the rear cover
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.
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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 propogation 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; progress in male gamete ultrastructure and phylogeny in Volume IX; progress in developmental endocrinology in Volume X. Volume XI Progress in Asexual Reproduction, records progress in our knowldege on the subject and provides much new information.
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- Title Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Progress in Asexual Reproduction
- Author K. G. Adiyodi (Editor); Rita G. Adiyodi (Editor); R. N. Hughes (Volume Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Volume 11
- Pages 354
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley
- Date August 7, 2001
- ISBN 9780471489689 / 0471489689
- Weight 1.86 lbs (0.84 kg)
- Dimensions 9.74 x 6.58 x 0.88 in (24.74 x 16.71 x 2.24 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 571.812
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