Reproduction and Development in Platyhelminthes

ISBN-13: 9781032175720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str.

T. J. Pandian

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of all aspects of Reproduction and Development in Platyhelminths covering from Acoela in Turbellaria to Taenioidea in Cestoda. It elaborates the life cycle and characteristics of different platyhelminthic taxa.

Spis treści

General IntroductionIntroductionTaxonomy and DiversityLife CyclesHost-Parasite DistributionFecundityOsmotrophism and DigestionNeoblastsTurbellariaIntroductionPART A: GENERAL FEATURESTaxonomy and DistributionReproductive SystemTransition to ParasitismContrasting StrategiesSemelparity and IteroparitySexualityPART B: REGENERATIONIntroductionDistribution and PotencyCell Counts and MitosisBlastema and RegenerationGenes in RegenerationPART C: CLONAL REPRODUCTIONIntroductionSurgery and PotencyClonal TypesSwitching SexualityTelomere and SenescenceMonogeneaIntroductionTaxonomy and DistributionLife Cycle and CharacteristicsHost SpecificityDigeneaIntroductionTaxonomy: Parasites and HostsLarval FormsIntermediate HostsClonal SelectionAmphiparatenic TransmissionPolyembryony and/or ParthenogenesisSequence and PotencyThe Transmission‘Sweet is Shorter’Prevalence and DensityCauses and LossesCestodaIntroductionTaxonomy and DiversityReproductive SystemLife CyclesNeoteny- ProgenesisPrevalence and IntensitySchistocephalus solidusClonal MultiplicationsThe TransmissionFishes and LossesSexualizationIntroductionChromosomes and GenesEndocrine DifferentiationEndocrine DisruptionComparison and HighlightsIntroductionNeoblasts TypesClonal SelectionProgenesisHabitat DistributionDiversification and SpeciationReferences

O autorze

Recipient of the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award for scientists, one of the ten National Professorships, T.J. Pandian has served as editor/ member of editorial boards of many international journals. His books on Animal Energetics (Academic Press) identify him as a prolific but precise writer. His five volumes on Sexuality, Sex Determination and Differentiation in Fishes, published by CRC Press, are ranked with five stars. He is presently authoring a multi-volume series on Reproduction and Development of Aquatic Invertebrates, of which the volumes on Crustacea, Mollusca, Echinodermata and Prochordata, and Annelida have already been published. The next one, Platyhelminthes, is in your hands and Minor Phyla is being prepared.