Fish Evolution and Systematics: Evidence from Spermatozoa: With a Survey of Lophophorate, Echinoderm and Protochordate Sperm and an Account of Gamete Cryopreservation

by Barrie G. M. Jamieson , Foreword by Joseph S. Nelson , With contributions by L. K. -P. Leung

• ISBN13: 9780521292566
• ISBN10: 0521292565
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this 1991 book, Professor Jamieson masterfully brings together the literature on fish spermatozoa and voluminous work on the evolutionary history of fishes to provide a detailed synthesis of the two fields of fish spermatology and fish systematics. The author begins by considering invertebrate phyla related to the chordates, and goes through the lower chordates and early fishes to the line leading to amphibians and to highest teleosts. His treatment provides a review of fish systematics based on the classical evidence of gross morphology in a cladistic framework and a critical integration of this with information on the degree to which spermatozoa support of conflict with the various hypotheses of relationship. Additionally, Professor Jamieson is joined by Luke K. -P. Leung to give a review of the principles of biological cryopreservation and of the live preservation of fish gametes.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction. Lophophorata and Echinodermata

Hemichordata

Urochordata

Cephalochordata

Introduction to fish spermatozoa. The significance of the micropyle in fertilization

Agnatha. Class MyxinI

Superclass Gnathostomata. Class Chondrichthyes. Subclasses Holocephali and Elasmobranchii

Class Osteichthyes. Subclass ActinopterygiI

Subclass CrossopterygiI

Infraclass NeopterygiI

Superorder Elopomorpha. Orders Elopoformes and Anguilliformes. Superorder Clupeomorpha. Order Clupeomorpha

Infradicision EitelosteI

Order Salmoniformes ('Protacanthopterygii')

NeoteleosteI

Superorder AcanthopterygiI

Series Percomorpha. Perciformes Labroidei, Trachinoidei, Blennioidei, Scombroide I Orders Pleuonectiformes and Tetraodontiformes

Series Atherinomorpha. Orders Atheriniformes, Cyprinodontiformes and Beloniformes

Summary and Conclusions. Fish sperm types and the plesiomorphic mode of fertilization. Morphological summary. Systematic and phylogenetic summary

Principles of biological cryopreservation

Live preservation of fish gametes

References

Author index

Subject index; Taxonomic index

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