Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. the Crustacea, Volume 2

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-13791-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 522 Seiten, Gewicht: 1304 g

Reihe: Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology - The Crustacea

With this edition, access to the texts of the famous 'Traité de Zoologie' is now available to a worldwide readership. Parts 1, 2, and 3A of volume VII, i.e., the Crustacea, were published in French in, respectively, 1994, 1996, and 1999. Brill recognized the importance of these books and arranged for a translation to be made. However, some of the manuscripts dated from the early 1980s and it was clear from the beginning that in many fields of biology a mere translation of the existing text would not suffice. Thus, all chapters have been carefully reviewed, either by the original authors or by newly attracted specialists, and adequate updates have been prepared accordingly.

This second volume of 'The Crustacea, revised and updated from the Traité de Zoologie' contains chapters on:
-The circulatory system
-The digestive tract: anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry
-Osmoregulation: morphological, physiological, biochemical, hormonal, and developmental aspects
-The endocrine organs
-The ontogeny of sex and sexual physiology
-The origins of crustacean larvae

The volume concludes with a list of contributors, as well as with both taxonomic and subject indices.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in crustacean biology and natural history, especially Decapoda.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forest (+), Jac

Vaupel Klein, Carel von

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Taxonomie und Systematik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbellose (Invertebrata) Krebstiere (Crustacea)

Über Autor(innen)

J. Forest (†) was well known for his work on decapod crustacean taxonomy. As editor of the original French edition he acted as Supervisory Editor.

J.C. von Vaupel Klein, the principal translator of this series, until recently was associate professor at the University of Leiden (now retired) and has been Managing Editor of Crustaceana since 1985.

F.R. Schram used to be a full professor at the University of Amsterdam; now emiritus, he is still active in many fields of crustacean research as a research associate at the University of Washington, Seattle, and is Advisory Editor for this series.