Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Progress in Reproductive Endocrinology - Hardcover

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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.

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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.

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Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates
Volume VIII: Progress in Reproductive Endocrinology Series
Edited by K.G. Adiyodi and R.G. Adiyodi Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India Department of Zoology, Calicut University, India.
Volume Edited by T.S. Adams USDA-ARS, State University Station, U.S.A.

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 interspecific reproductive isolation in Volume VI. Progress in Developmental Biology, the seventh volume in the encyclopaedic open-ended series, overviews the advances at the cutting edge currently being made in leading laboratories of the world in molecular and other aspects of differentiation and development of selected invertebrate groups. Volume VIII, "Progress in Reproductive Endocrinology", presents and discusses recent published information on regulation of reproduction in representative acoelomates, pseudocoelomates, and schizocoelomates. Other volumes in the series:

Volume I Oogenesis, Oviposition, and Oosorption

Volume II 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

Volume VII Progress in Developmental Biology