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Title Reproductive biology and phylogeny of fishes (agnathans and bony fishes). Part B, Sperm Competition, hormones, sexual selection, reproductive modes, fertilization, sex determination, parental care, conservation, cryopreservation, embryology, genetics / volume edited by Barrie G.M. Jamieson
Edition First edition
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (552 pages)
Contents Testes, Sperm, and Sperm Competition; Endocrinology of Reproduction; Pheromones and Reproduction; Copulatory Structures: Taxonomic Overview and the Potential for Sexual Selection; Sexual Selection: Signaling and Courtship; Adaptation and Evolution of Reproductive Mode in Copulating Cottoid Species; Fertilization; Sex Determination; Parental Care; Reproduction in Relation to Conservation and Exploitation of Marine Fishes; Live Preservation of Fish Gametes; Embryogenesis and Development; Molecular Genetics of Development: Ben Tucker and Robert I. Richards
Summary The animals loosely termed fish constitute more than half of all known vertebrate species. There are approximately 27,000 described living species of bony fishes (Euteleostomi = Osteichthyes), about 70 species of hagfishes and some 34 species of lampreys. Approximately 970 species are chondrichthyans, the sharks and their relatives, which were the subject of volume 3 in this series. It is perhaps because fishes live in a buoyant medium, whether it be fresh or sea water, that they show a diversity in body shapes that is unparalleled by other vertebrates. There is also a unique diversity in the modes of reproduction, whether by external or internal fertilization, and this, with the morphology and fine structure of the reproductive system and its components, is the subject of Part A. Part B deals with complementary topics: testes, sperm, and sperm competition; endocrinology of reproduction; pheromones and reproduction; copulatory structures: taxonomic overview and the potential for sexual selection; sexual selection: signaling and courtship; adaptation and evolution of reproductive mode in copulating cottoid species; fertilization; sex determination; parental care; reproduction in relation to conservation and exploitation of marine fishes; Cryopreservation of Gametes; Embryogenesis and Development; and Molecular Genetics of Development
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Subject Fishes -- Reproduction.
Fishes -- Phylogeny.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- Marine Biology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- Developmental Biology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
Fishes -- Phylogeny
Fishes -- Reproduction
Form Electronic book
Author Jamieson, Barrie G. M. (Barrie Gillean Molyneux), editor.
ISBN 9780429094170
0429094175
9780429526695
0429526695
9781439843581
1439843589
9780429541391
0429541392