Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Progress in Reproductive Endocrinology

by Adiyodi, K. G.; Adiyodi, Rita G.; Adams, T. S.

• ISBN13: 9780471968085
• ISBN10: 0471968080
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-02-04
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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.

Author Biography

About the Editors Dr. K.G. Adiyodi, formerly Professor of Reproductive 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 discipline of invertebrate reproductive biology a global distinctiveness and identity of its own, Dr. K.G. Adiyodi is Founder Secretary of the International Society of Invertebrate 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. T.S. Adams received his B.A. in zoology from California State University, Los Angeles and a Ph.D. in medical entomology from the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Adams’ research career spans 35 years and has concentrated on the reproductive physiology of Diptera with an emphasis on the regulation of oogenesis and pheromone production.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Progress Series	vii	(2)
Preface to Volume VIII	ix	(2)
Contributors	xi
1. Platyhelminthes	1	(32)
Ian Fairweather
2. Nemertina	33	(22)
Michel Tarpin
3. Nematoda	55	(6)
Michael W. Fleming
4. Mollusca	61	(92)
Stephanie A. Smith
Roger P. Croll
5. Annelida--Polychaeta	153	(38)
Peter J.W. Olive
6. Annelida--Oligochaeta and Hirudinea	191	(20)
R. Marcel
7. Arthropoda--Chelicerata	211	(36)
W. Reuben Kaufman
8. Arthropoda--Crustacea	247	(30)
F. Van Herp
D. Soyez
9. Arthropoda--Insecta	277	(62)
T.S. Adams
Subject Index	339	(28)
Species Index	367