The treatment of crustacean larval biology is thorough, covering the appropriate terrain of developmental modes, effects of environmental conditions on growth and development, behavior, and important events in the lives of larvae, such as hatching and metamorphosis.
Klaus Anger is Professor of Developmental Biology, Zoology, and Ecology at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremen, Germany.
Steffan Harzsch is Professor of Zoology at the University of Greifswald in Germany.
Martin Thiel is Professor of Marine Biology at Universidad Catolica del Norte (UCN) in Coquimbo, Chile.