Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny

by Adiyodi, K. G.; Adiyodi, Rita G.; Jamieson, B. G. M.

• ISBN13: 9780471999096
• ISBN10: 0471999091
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-18
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Includes significant advances in knowledge of spermatozoal ultrastructure of priapulida; mollusca: relict taxa; Polychaeta including pogonophora and myzostomida; euclitellata; nematoda; tardigrada; onychophora and chelicerta.It is part of the ninth volume in the series: Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny.

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. Barrie Jamieson is Professor of Zoology at the Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland. He holds a B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Bristol, England, and a D.Sc. from the University of Queensland. In 1990 he was awarded the Clarke Medal for Research in Natural Sciences, an honour shared with Thomas Henry Huxley. His chief field of research is spermatozoal ultrastructure and its relevance to phylogeny but he is also an authority on taxonomy of earthworms and has published on bioluminescence, trematode taxonomy and life cycles, and DNA-based phylogenetics. He has published nearly 200 scientific papers and is the author, coauthor or editor of nine books.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Progress Series	vii
Preface to Volume IX, Part B	ix
Contributors	xiii
Priapulida	1	(20)
Volker Storch
Claudia Kempendorf
Robert P. Higgins
Thomas C. Shirley
Barrie G.M. Jamieson
Mollusca: Relict Taxa	21	(60)
John M. Healy
Polychaeta, Including Pogonophora and Myzostomida	81	(44)
Gregory W. Rouse
Euclitellata	125	(58)
Marco Ferraguti
Nematoda	183	(84)
Jean-Lou Justine
Barrie G.M. Jamieson
Tardigrada	267	(26)
Lorena Rebecchi
Alessandra Guidi
Roberto Bertolani
Onychophora	293	(18)
Volker Storch
Hilke Ruhberg
Gerd Alberti
Barrie G.M. Jamieson
Chelicerata	311	(78)
Gerd Alberti
Subject Index	389	(40)
Species Index	429