Vertebrate Reproduction

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Preface

   • Volker Blüm

   Pages 1-3

3. Introduction

   • Volker Blüm

   Pages 5-42

4. Comparative Anatomy of the Urogenital System

   • Volker Blüm

   Pages 43-74

5. The Formation of Gametes

   • Volker Blüm

   Pages 75-109

6. Fertilisation and Early Development

   • Volker Blüm

   Pages 111-155

7. The Regulation of Reproduction

   • Volker Blüm

   Pages 157-209

8. Reproductive Behaviour

   • Volker Blüm

   Pages 211-229

9. Care of the Young Within the Body: Submammalians

   • Volker Blüm

   Pages 231-257

10. Care of the Young Within the Body: Mammals

    • Volker Blüm

    Pages 259-301

11. Care of the Young Outside the Body

    • Volker Blüm

    Pages 303-330

12. Back Matter

    Pages 331-405

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Oral birth in the Australian gastric brooding frog Rheobatrachus sUus 2 Preface I have deliberately chosen the title picture to the preface, which shows the oral birth of a young gastric brooding frog (Rheobatrachus situs), to draw the reader's attention to the preface since I wish to explain why the book was written and illustrated in the way it now appears. The book has grown out of the material of a lecture course taking 3 to 4 hours per week each semester that I have given for several years at the Ruhr-University Bochum as the theoretical basis for an intensive 4 week practical course on vertebrate reproduction for students of biology. For various reasons I am a hardened opponent of giving lecture notes to the students. On the other hand I found that my students made great efforts to work through and supplement their own lecture notes by studying the literature. However, there are no suitable textbooks on vertebrate reproduction written in German and the standard work in this field is now several decades old and deals mainly with mammals. The students were therefore often frustrated in their efforts given the limited time they had available. I have therefore decided to present here the most important structural and functional aspects of vertebrate reproduction and include other material to extend the framework of my original lectures.

• adaptation
• amphibians
• biology
• cell division
• development
• evolution
• genetics
• mammals
• migration
• molecular mechanisms
• morphology
• physiology
• regulation
• reproduction
• reptiles

• Arbeitsgruppe fü vergleichende Endokrinologie, Abteilung für Biologie Ruhr-Universität, Bochum 1, Germany

  Volker Blüm

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