Lampreys: Biology, Conservation and Control: Volume 2

✍ Scribed by Margaret F. Docker

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 590
• Series: Fish & Fisheries Series 38
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book, published in two volumes, provides the most comprehensive review of lamprey biology since Hardisty and Potter’s “The Biology of Lampreys” published more than 30 years ago. This second volume offers a synthesis of topics related to the lamprey gonad (e.g., lamprey sex ratios, sex determination and sex differentiation, sexual maturation, and sex steroids), the artifical propagation of lampreys, post-metamorphic feeding and the evolution of alternative feeding and migratory types, the history and status of sea lamprey control in the Laurentian Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, and an overview of contributions of lamprey developmental studies for understanding vertebrate evolution.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
The Lamprey Gonad (Margaret F. Docker, F. William H. Beamish, Tamanna Yasmin, Mara B. Bryan, Arfa Khan)....Pages 1-186
Lamprey Reproduction and Early Life History: Insights from Artificial Propagation (Mary L. Moser, John B. Hume, Kimmo K. Aronsuu, Ralph T. Lampman, Aaron D. Jackson)....Pages 187-245
Post-metamorphic Feeding in Lampreys (Claude B. Renaud, Philip A. Cochran)....Pages 247-285
Life History Evolution in Lampreys: Alternative Migratory and Feeding Types (Margaret F. Docker, Ian C. Potter)....Pages 287-409
Control of Invasive Sea Lamprey in the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, and Finger Lakes of New York (J. Ellen Marsden, Michael J. Siefkes)....Pages 411-479
The Lamprey as a Model Vertebrate in Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Joshua R. York, Eric Myung-Jae Lee, David W. McCauley)....Pages 481-526
There and Back Again: Lampreys in the 21st Century and Beyond (Margaret F. Docker, John B. Hume)....Pages 527-570
Back Matter ....Pages 571-577

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences; Evolutionary Biology; Vertebrates; Animal Models; Conservation Biology/Ecology; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Developmental Biology