Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Progress in Developmental Endocrinology - Hardcover

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DR. K.G. ADIYODI, formerly Professor of Physiology and Dean,Faculty of Science, Calicut University, Kerala, India andVice-Chancellor, Cochin University of Science and Technology,Kochi, is now Public Service Commissioner to Government of India,New Delhi. A distinguished invertebrate reproductive biologist, whogave the discipline of invertebrate reproductive biology a global distinctiveness and identity of its own, Dr. K.G. Adiyodi isFounder Secretary of the International Society of Inverebrate Reproduction, Founder Editor-in-Chief of the International Journalof Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, and Founder Presidentof the Indian Society of Invertebrate Reproduction.

DR. RITA G. ADIYODI, formerly Rhodes Visiting Fellow, SomervilleCollege, Oxford (1976-78), is Professor of Zoology at CalicutUniversity. She served as President of the Crustacean Reprobiologyand Aquaculture Bureau of India and as Vice-President of the Indian Society of Invertebrate Reproduction. Dr. Rita Adiyodi representedIndia 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 ofarthropods, chiefly crustaceans.

DR. AUGUST DORN is Professor of Zoology at the Institute ofZoology, Johannes Gutenberg-University (JOGU) in Mainz, Germany.After his doctoral degree from the JOGU, he carried out a researchproject at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York:Neuroendocrine Processes in Insect Embryos. Since 1972 he isprofessor at the JOGU and teaches General and AppliedEndocrinology. His chief research interests are EndocrineRegulation of Insect Reproduction, Role of Hormones in Locust PhasePolymorphism and Mode of Action of Natural Insect GrowthRegulators. In 1981/82 he was Visting Professor at the Departmentof Biology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (USA)sponsored by the VW-Stiftung. He has published numerous articles inthe above-mentioned fields.

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Preface to the Progress Series; Preface to Volume X B; Contributors; Evolution of Steroid Hormones and Steroid-Hormone Receptors Gerd Käuser; Evolution of Developmental Peptide Hormones and Their Receptors Jozef Vanden Broack, Liliane Schoofs, and Arnold De Loof; Arthropoda-Insecta: Embryology August Dorn; Arthropoda-Insecta: Larval Development and Metamorphosis-Molecular Aspects Margarethe Spindler-Barth and Klaus-Deiter Spindler; Arthropoda-Insecta: Diapause David S. Saunders; Arthropoda-Insecta: Caste Differentiation Klaus Hartfelder; Arthropoda-Insecta: Endocrine Control of Phase Polymorphism August Dorn, Christof Ress, Silivia Sickold, and Silke Wedekind-Hirschberger; Arthropoda-Insecta: Migration Jack Kent Jr. and Mary Ann Rankin; Non-Veterbrate Chordata Mario Pestarino; Subject Index; Species Index.

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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 propogation 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 IV; 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. Volume XA & B, Progress in Developmental Endocrinology, records progress in our knowledge on the subject and provides much new information.