Reproductive Biology of Crustaceans. Case Studies of Decapod Crustaceans
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Author(s): E. Mente (Ed.)
Publisher: Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781578085293
Format: hardback
549pp
Price: £70.00
Review Date: 02 September 2008
Review: This book gives an overview of the latest research into crustacean reproduction. Crustaceans have a complex physiological structure and most aspects of their lives are synchronised with their moult cycle (moult, reproduction and metabolism are correlated with the seasons). Crustaceans are ideal organisms for studying endocrine disruption and stress physiology in aquatic invertebrates. The book has chapters on: Phylogeny biology and the ecology of crustaceans; Population and aquaculture; Reproduction in fisheries; Mating behaviour; Male reproductive hormones; Endocrine control in female reproduction; Nutrition and reproduction; Coordination of reproduction and moult in decapods; Reproductive biology and growth in marine lobsters; Reproduction in Penaeid shrimps; and The crustacean nephrops norvegicus.