Synopses & Reviews
Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates Volume IX-C: Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny Series Edited by K.G. Adiyodi and R.G. Adiyodi Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India and Department of Zoology, Calicut University, India Volume Edited by B.G.M. Jamieson Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia The story of invertebrate gametes their structure, origin, composition, physiology, and production mechanisms was told in Volumes I and II; how accessory sex gland secretions facilitate their packaging, storage, survival, and delivery in Volume III; events leading to and following the union of gametes such as insemination, sperm-egg interaction, fertilization, development, Embryonic nutrition, eclosion, and larval settlement and metamorphosis in Volume IV; different aspects of invertebrate sexology such as patterns of sexuality, sex determination, sexual differentiation and maturation, sexual receptivity and behaviour, and sex changes in Volume V; asexual propagation and regeneration, parthenogenesis, special modes of reproduction such as polyembryony and paedogenesis, fecundity, sterility, breeding cycles, reproductive strategies (life-history tactics), and inter-specific reproductive isolation in Volume VI; molecular and other aspects of differentiation and development of selected invertebrate groups in Volume VII; regulation of reproduction in representative acoelomates, pseudocoelomates, and schizocoelomates in Volume VIII; Volume IX, "Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny" records progress in our knowledge on the subject and provides much new information Other Volumes in the series Volume I Oogenesis, Oviposition, and Oosorption Volume II Spermatogenesis and Spermatogenesis and Sperm Function Volume III Accessory Sex Glands Volume IV Fertilization, Development, and Parental Care (parts A and B) Volume V Sexual Differentiation and Behaviour Volume VI Asexual Propagation and Reproductive Strategies (Parts A and B) Volume VII Progress in Developmental Biology Volume VIII Progress in Reproductive Endocrinology
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
The story of invertebrate gametes their structure, origin, composition, physiology, and production mechanisms was told in Volumes I and II; how accessory sex gland secretions facilitate their packaging, storage, survival, and delivery in Volume III; events leading to and following the union of gametes such as insemination, sperm-egg interaction, fertilization, development, embryonic nutrition, eclosion, and larval settlement and metamorphosis in Volume IV; different aspects of invertebrate sexology such as patterns of sexuality, sex determination, sexual differentiation and maturation, sexual receptivity and behavior, and sex changes in Volume V; asexual progagation and regeneration, parthenogenesis, special modes of reproduction such as polyembryony and paedogenesis, fecundity, sterility, breeding cycles, reproductive strategies (life-history tactics), and interspecific reproductive isolation in Volume VI; molecular and other aspects of differentiation and development of selected invertebrate groups in Volume VII; regulation of reproduction in representative acoelomates, pseudocoelomates, and schizocoelomates in Volume VIII. Volume IX, "Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny", records progress in our knowledge on the subject and provides much new information.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
Updates knowledge of the ultrastructure and phylogeny of spermatozoa of the invertebrates. Much new information is included on the sperm of non-chelicerate arthropod groups: the Decapoda, Pentastomida and Myriapoda and also the Lophophorata, and the unequivocally deuterostome groups, Echinodermata, Chordata, Urochordata, and Chephalochordata.
It is part of the ninth volume in the series: Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny.
Synopsis
About 95 per cent of all known animal species are invertebrates. A knowledge of their sexual, reproductive, and development 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 invertebratesterrestrial, 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. Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny (issued in parts A-C) is the ninth volume in the series. Volume IX, Part C Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny Edited by B.G.M. Jamieson Contents Preface to the Progress Series; Preface to Volume IX C; Contributors; DecapodaCrustacea, Barrie G.M. Jamieson and Christopher C. Tudge; Pentastomida, Barrie G.M. Jamieson and Volker Storch; Myriapoda, Massimo Mazzini, Marcella Carcupino and Anna Maria Fausto; Lophophorata, Barrie G.M. Jamieson; Echinodermata, Barrie G.M. Jamieson; Chordata-Hemichordata, Barrie G.M. Jamieson; Urochordata, Paolo Burighel and Gian Bruno Martinucci; Cephalochordata, Barrie G.M. Jamieson; Subject Index; Species Index.
About the Author
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.
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 the 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
Preface to Volume IX, Part B
Contributors
1. Priapulida Volker Storch, Claudia Kempendorf, Robert P. Higgins, Thomas C. Shirley, and Barrie G.M. Jamieson
2. Mollusca: Relict Taxa John M. Healy
3. Polychaeta, Including Pogonophora and Myzostomida Gregory W. Rouse
4. Euclitellata Marco Ferraguti
5. Nematoda Jean-Lou Justine and Barrie G.M. Jamieson
6. Tardigrada Lorena Rebecchi, Alessandra Guidi, and Roberto Bertolani
7. Onychophora Volker Storch, Hilke Ruhberg, Gerd Alberti, and Barrie G.M. Jamieson
8. Chelicerata Gerd Alberti
Subject Index
Species Index