Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Progress in Reproductive Endocrinology / Edition 1

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

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471968085
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/04/1998
Series:	Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates , #10
Edition description:	Volume 8
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.46(w) x 9.47(h) x 1.18(d)

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.

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

Platyhelminthes (I. Fairweather).
Nemertina (M. Tarpin).
Nematoda (M. Fleming).
Mollusca (S. Smith R. Croll).
Annelida—Polychaeta (P. Olive).
Annelida—Oligochaeta and Hirudinea (R. Marcel).
Arthropoda—Chelicerata (W. Kaufman).
Arthropoda—Crustacea (F. Van Herp D. Soyez).
Arthropoda—Insecta (T. Adams).
Indexes.

Editorial Reviews

This book, part of the Progress in Reproductive Biology series, summarizes information on the endocrine control of reproduction in selected invertebrates. The purpose is to provide a description of endocrine action in the reproductive strategies of acoelomates, pseudocoelomates, and schizocoelomates. It is mainly for reproductive endocrinologists doing research on the selected invertebrates included in this book. A few black-and-white illustrations are used; many more would have been useful. References are not up to date. According to editor, the groups of invertebrates selected for this volume represent phyla for which recently published information concerning the regulation of reproduction was available. However, there are very few recent references included. Consequently, this volume, like some of the previous ones in this series, was already dated by the time it was published.

Leo Miller

Reviewer:Leo Miller, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description:This book, part of the Progress in Reproductive Biology series, summarizes information on the endocrine control of reproduction in selected invertebrates.
Purpose:The purpose is to provide a description of endocrine action in the reproductive strategies of acoelomates, pseudocoelomates, and schizocoelomates.
Audience:It is mainly for reproductive endocrinologists doing research on the selected invertebrates included in this book.
Features:A few black-and-white illustrations are used; many more would have been useful. References are not up to date.
Assessment:According to editor, the groups of invertebrates selected for this volume represent phyla for which recently published information concerning the regulation of reproduction was available. However, there are very few recent references included. Consequently, this volume, like some of the previous ones in this series, was already dated by the time it was published.