This book presents a comprehensive review of various biological and ecological studies in animal science, including their embryology, evolution, classification, habitats and distribution. Topics discussed herein include the challenges of developing a treatment that protects shrimp against WSSV infection; patterns in the diversity of grassland butterfly communities; artificial polyploidisation in cultivated shrimp; the behaviour, ecology and conservation of butterflies; arrhythmia in behaviour and cyclic processes of cardiovascular and respiratory systems of phocids; guinea pig behaviour and...

This book presents a comprehensive review of various biological and ecological studies in animal science, including their embryology, evolution, classification, habitats and distribution. Topics discussed herein include the aphid behavior in a multitrophic environment; mechanisms determing benthic adult distributions of estuarine and coastal crabs; feeding ecology of the pig-tailed macaques; adult neurogenesis in primates; and visceral adiposity and splanchnic organ mass in non-pregnant dry Holstein cows.

This book presents a comprehensive review of various biological and ecological studies in animal science, including their embryology, evolution, classification, habitats and distribution. Topics discussed herein include the prophenoloxidase system in insects; cloacae, cloacal glands and female sperm storage in giant salamanders; anxiety, aggression and social behavior in zebrafish; the shifting and transition mode of verterbrate genome evolution; fish lectins; nutritional consequences of extreme sexual size dimorphism; feeding behavior of herbivores in rocky outcrops of northwestern...