Description

This series of volumes represents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of reproduction in vertebrates from fishes of all sorts through mammals. It is designed to provide a readable, coordinated description of reproductive basics in each group of vertebrates as well as an introduction to the latest trends in reproductive research and our understanding of reproductive events. Whereas each chapter and each volume is intended to stand alone as a review of that topic or vertebrate group, respectively, the volumes are prepared so as to provide a thorough topical treatment across the vertebrates. Terminology has been standardized across the volumes to reduce confusion where multiple names exist in the literature, and a comprehensive glossary of these terms and their alternative names is provided.

Readership

Research and Post-Graduate scientists studying non-human vertebrate physiology, hormones and reproductive biology.
Animal Scientists
Reproductive Physiologists using animals as models for human reproductive research
Libraries and labs in vertebrate physiology, endocrinology and reproductive biology.

Contents

1. Sex Determination in Fishes

Bindhu Paul-Prasanth, Masaru Nakamura, and Yoshitaka Nagahama

2. Conserved and Divergent Features of Reproductive Neuroendocrinology in Teleost Fishes

Olivier Kah and Sylvie Dufour

3. Testicular Function and Hormonal Regulation in Fishes

Rosemary Knapp and Sharon L. Carlisle

4. Regulation of Ovarian Development and Function in Teleosts

R. Urbatzka, M.J. Rocha, and E. Rocha

5. Thyroid Hormone and Reproduction in Fishes

Jason C. Raine

6. Stress and Reproduction

Meghan L.M. Fuzzen, Nicholas J. Bernier and Glen Van Der Kraak

7. Hormones and Sexual Behavior of Teleost Fishes

David M. Gonçalves and Rui F. Oliveira

8. Neuroendocrine Regulation in Sex-changing Fishes

Earl T. Larson

9. Hormonally-derived Sex Pheromones in Fishes

Norm Stacey

10. Reproduction in Agnathan Fishes: Lampreys and Hagfishes

Stacia A. Sower and Hiroshi Kawauchi

11. Hormones and Reproduction in Chondrichthyan Fishes

Karen P. Maruska and James Gelsleichter

12. Hormones and Reproduction of Sarcopterygian Fishes

Jean M.P. Joss

13. Endocrine-active Chemicals (EACs) in Fishes

Alan Milan Vajda

Author Information

Edited by David O. Norris, Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. and Kristin H. Lopez, Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.