Название: Crustacean Sexual Biology Автор: Raymond T. Bauer (Author), Joel W. Martin (Editor) Издательство: Columbia Univ Pr Год: 1991 Формат: pdf Страниц: 351 Размер: 8,0 mb. Язык: English
Crustaceans are a diverse assemblage of animals that includes not only the wellknown shrimps, lobsters, and crabs but also a variety of less familiar but biologically important groups. Inhabiting primarily aquatic habitats, crustaceans might be considered the marine equivalent of their overwhelmingly terrestrial brethren, the insects. However, knowledge about the sexual biology of crustaceans is slight in comparison to what is known for insects and many other animal groups. In spite of the importance of selection pressures related to successful mating on the morphology, behavior, life histories, and phylogeny of crustaceans, many aspects of sex attraction, mating behavior, and insemination remain poorly known. A review of the literature on crustacean reproduction revealed that there was no comprehensive treatment of crustacean sexual biology but that in recent years much new exciting work has been (and is being) done in this area. Accordingly, we organized a symposium titled "Sex Attraction, Mating Behavior, and Insemination in Crustacea," cosponsored by the Crustacean Society and the Invertebrate Zoology Division of the American Society of Zoologists, with travel