Developmental Biology and Larval Ecology - The Natural History of the Crustacea, Volume 7

This book offers an updated and comprehensive overview of crustacean development.

List of contents

• Chapter 1. From a Single Cell to Segmental Structures: Crustacean Embryology Gerhard Scholtz


• Chapter 2. Crustacean limb morphogenesis during normal development and regeneration Anastasios Pavlopoulos and Carsten Wolff


• Chapter 3. Organogenesis Günther Loose, Günter Vogt, Mireille Charmantier-Daures, Guy Charmantier, and Steffen Harzsch


• Chapter 4. Duplicated, Twisted, and in the Wrong Place: Patterns of Malformation in Crustaceans Gerhard Scholtz


• Chapter 5. Hatching Martin Fritsch, Jørgen Olesen, Sten Ole Møller, and Günther Loose


• Chapter 6. Patterns of Larval Development Ole Sten Møller, Klaus Anger, and Guillermo Guerao


• Chapter 7. Effects of Environmental Conditions on Larval Growth and Development Chaoshu Zeng, Guiomar Rotllant, Luis Giménez and Nicholas Romano


• Chapter 8. Settlement and Metamorphosis in Barnacles and Decapods Paulina Gebauer, Luis Giménez, Iván Hinojosa, and Kurt Paschke


• Chapter 9. Metamorphosis in Crustaceans Joachim T. Haug


• Chapter 10. Phenotypic Plasticity and Phenotypic Links in Larval Development Luis Giménez


• Chapter 11. Feeding and Nutrition of Crustacean Larvae Andrew Jeffs and Richard O'Rorke


• Chapter 12. Response to Visual, Chemical, and Tactile Stimuli Jonathan H. Cohen and Charles E. Epifanio


• Chapter 13. Predation and Competition Samuel M. Bashevkin and Steven G. Morgan


• Chapter 14. Dispersal Steven G. Morgan


• Chapter 15. Larval Connectivity and Marine Protected Area Networks Per-Olav Moksnes and Per R. Jonsson


• Index

About the author

Klaus Anger is Professor of Developmental Biology, Zoology, and Ecology at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremen, Germany.

Steffan Harzsch is Professor of Zoology at the University of Greifswald in Germany.

Martin Thiel is Professor of Marine Biology at Universidad Catolica del Norte (UCN) in Coquimbo, Chile.

Summary

This book offers an updated and comprehensive overview of crustacean development.

Additional text

The treatment of crustacean larval biology is thorough, covering the appropriate terrain of developmental modes, effects of environmental conditions on growth and development, behavior, and important events in the lives of larvae, such as hatching and metamorphosis.

Product details

• Authors: Klaus (Professor of Developmental Biology Anger, Klaus Harzsch Anger
• Assisted by: Klaus Anger (Editor), Steffen Harzsch (Editor), Harzsch Steffen (Editor), Martin Thiel (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780190648954
• ISBN: 978-0-19-064895-4
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: The Natural History of the Crustacea; Natural History of the Crustac
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Taxonomy, Animal behaviour, Ethology and animal behaviour, Zoology: invertebrates, Crustaceans