Overview
- Includes new data and new concepts about animal developmental mechanisms in each chapter
- Provides the most intriguing topics in life-cycle reproduction, i.e., life continuity
- Compiles information in model as well as non-model animal species from basal invertebrates to vertebrates, including mammals
Part of the book series: Diversity and Commonality in Animals (DCA)
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Diversity in Sex Determination and Differentiation
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Diversity in the Mechanism of Fertilization
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Diversity in Axis Formation
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About this book
This book provides new insights into the universality of biological systems in animal reproduction and development by a comparative study of a variety of mechanisms in animals ranging from basal invertebrates to vertebrates, including mammals.
Animals accomplish genetic diversity through meiosis and fertilization, and during embryogenesis animals must produce specialized cell types, including germ cells, in accordance with their individual body plan. This series of phenomena is essential to the continuity of life in the animal kingdom, and animals show various reproductive and developmental strategies.
This volume, comprising four parts, reviews animal kingdom diversity, including reproductive strategies and germ cell differentiation mechanisms (Part 1), sex determination and differentiation (Part2), the mechanisms of fertilization (Part 3), and body axis formation (Part 4). Readers will find descriptions of the reproduction or development of 180 species, 13 phyla, 35 classes, 74 orders, 117 families, and 151 genera in this book. Of particular interest is the diversity of molecules and mechanisms used to achieve the same biological purpose in different animals.
Undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scientists who want a deeper understanding of animal reproductive and developmental mechanisms will find this book to be of great value.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Department of Biology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University
Hirosaki, Japan Â
Takeshi Kitano
Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University
Kumamoto, Japan Â
Yasuhiro Iwao
Laboratory of Reproductive Developmental Biology, Division of Earth Sciences, Biology, and Chemistry, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University
Yamaguchi, Japan Â
Mariko Kondo
Misaki Marine Biological Station, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Miura, JapanÂ
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reproductive and Developmental Strategies
Book Subtitle: The Continuity of Life
Editors: Kazuya Kobayashi, Takeshi Kitano, Yasuhiro Iwao, Mariko Kondo
Series Title: Diversity and Commonality in Animals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56609-0
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan KK, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56607-6Published: 11 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56865-0Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-56609-0Published: 01 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2509-5536
Series E-ISSN: 2509-5544
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 790
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 137 illustrations in colour
Topics: Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Zoology