Crustacean Sexual Biology / edited by Raymond T. Bauer and Joel W. Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauer, Raymond T., editor.

Martin, Joel W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crustacea--Reproduction.

Crustacea.

Sex (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1990]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A collection of research in different areas of crustacean sexual biology. Specifically addresses the topics of sexual attraction, mating behavior and mating systems, and structure and function associated with insemination.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface / Bauer, Raymond Τ. / Martin, Joel W.

ONE. Bioluminescent Displays, Courtship, and Reproduction in Ostracodes / Morin, James G. / Cohen, Anne C.

TWO. Intrinsic Factors Mediating Pheromone Communication in the Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus / Gleeson, Richard A.

THREE. Patterns of Reproduction of Some Amphipod Crustaceans and Insights into the Mature of Their Stimuli / Borowsky, Betty

FOUR. Precopulatory Mate Guarding in Aquatic Crustacea: Gammarus lawrencianus as a Model System / Dunham, Philip J. / Hurshman, Alan M.

FIVE. Variation in Reproductive Behavior in Stomatopod Crustacea / Caldwell, Roy L.

SIX. The Ecology of Breeding Females and the Evolution of Polygyny In Paracerceis sculpta, A Marine Isopod Crustacean / Shuster, Stephen M.

SEVEN. Anostracan Mating Behavior: A Case of Scramble-Competition Polygyny / Belk, Denton

EIGHT. Mating and Insemination in the American Lobster, Homarus americanus / Waddy, S. L. / Aiken, D. E.

NINE. Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Mating Behavior in Brachyura, with Special Reference to Spider Crabs (Decapoda, Majidae) / Diesel, Rudolf

TEN. Sex Change, Mating, and Sperm Transfer in Crangon crangon (L.) / Boddeke, R. / Bosschieter, J. R. / Goudswaard, P. C.

ELEVEN. Sperm Transfer and Storage Structures in Penaeoid Shrimps: A Functional and Phylogenetic Perspective / Bauer, Raymond T.

TWELVE. Functional and Evolutionary Aspects of the Sexual System in the Rhizocephala (Thecostraca: Cirripedia) / Høeg, Jens T.

THIRTEEN. Functional Morphology and Evolution of Isopod Genitalia / Wilson, George D. F.

FOURTEEN. Functional Morphology of Spermatophores and Sperm Transfer in Calanoid Copepods / Blades-Eckelbarger, Pamela I.

FIFTEEN. The Reproductive Biology of Two Species of Remipedes / Yager, Jill

SIXTEEN. Structure and Chemical Content of the Spermatophores and Seminal Fluid of Reptantian Decapods / Hinsch, Gertrude W.

SEVENTEEN. Chemical Composition of Spermatophores in Decapod Crustaceans / Subramoniam, T.

EIGHTEEN. Morphological Diversity of Decapod Spermatozoa / Felgenhauer, Bruce E. / Abele, Lawrence G.

Contributors

Systematic Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231880534

0231880537

OCLC:

42330706