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Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates Volume IV Fertilization, Development, and Parental Care Edited by K.G. Adiyodi and R.G. Adiyodi 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. Fertilization, Development, and Parental Care is the fourth volume in the series. Part A: Porifera through Annelida—Polychaeta Contents Series Preface; Preface to Volume IV; Systematic Résumé of the Invertebrates; Porifera, P.E. Fell; Cnidaria, D.G. Fautin, F.-S. Chia, and J.G. Spaulding; Platyhelminthes—Turbellaria, L. Galleni and V. Gremigni; Platyhelminthes—Eucestoda, R.E. Davis and L.S. Roberts; Mesozoa, B.H. McConnaughey; Nemertina, C.-E. Cantell; Gnathostomulida, M. Mainitz; Rotifera, J.J. Gilbert; Gastrotricha, W.D. Hummon and M.R. Hummon; Kinorhyncha, A.E. Needham; Nematoda and Nematomorpha, A.F. Bird and R.I. Sommerville; Acanthocephala, D.W.T. Crompton; Priapulida, A. Nørrevang and Jacob van der Land; Sipuncula, M.E. Rice; Mollusca, R.L. Brahmachary; Echiura, F.C. Davis; Annelida—Polychaeta, P.C. Schroeder; Species Index; Subject Index. Part B: Annelida-Clitellata through Urochordata—Larvacea Tentative Contents Series Preface; Preface to Volume IV; Systematic Resume of the Invertebrates; Annelida—Clitellata, A.E. Needham; Pogonophora, T. Bakke; Tardigrada, R. Bertoiani; Onychophora, H. Ruhberg; Arthropoda—Chelicerata, Sperm Transfer in, P. Weygoldt; Arthropoda—Crustacea, G.W. Hinsch; Arthropoda—Myriapoda, J.-M. Demange; Pentastomida, J.T. Self; Phoronida, C.C. Emig; Bryozoa Ectoprocta, C. Nielsen; Bryozoa Entoprocta, C. Nielsen; Brachiopoda, S.H. Chuang; Chaetognatha, A. Alvariño; Echinodermata: Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Sea Urchin Embryo, G. Spinelli and I. Albanese; Urochordata—Ascidiacea, R.A. Cloney; Urochordata—Thaliacea, J.E.A. Godeaux; Urochordata—Larvacea, C. Galt; Species Index; Subject Index

About the Editors Dr. K.G. Adiyodi is Professor of Reproductive Physiology at Calicut University, Kerala, India. He is Founder-Secretary of the International Society of Invertebrate Reproduction, Founder Editor 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 (197678), 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 currently represents India on the International Committee of Comparative Endocrinology. Both editors have been working extensively on reproduction and growth biology of arthropods for the last twenty-five years. They have written and edited several books and published about one hundred and seventy research papers and advanced reviews.