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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Fish Histology
    sub title: Female Reproductive Systems
  name:
    name part: McMillan, Donald B.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 598 p. online resource.
  abstract: Fish — including cyclostomes, elasmobranchs, and teleosts — display a wide variety of ways of coping with the stringent conditions they encounter in the aquatic environment. This diversity is especially evident in the female genital systems where some fish spawn profligate numbers of small eggs while others develop a few yolky eggs that may receive parental care. Parental care is carried to extremes in viviparity where eggs develop within the ovary or oviducts of the mother. This volume describes the myriad ways in which fish have approached problems of reproduction — it is an amply illustrated comparative study of the microscopic structure of the female genital systems of fish. The timing of its appearance is auspicious in that it coincides with the decline of the golden age of descriptive morphology. It is a compilation of thousands of micrographs — mostly electron micrographs — from classic works in the field and should prove valuable to investigators studying fish in areas such as ecology, physiology, and reproductive biology who may view histology as essential in their work but have little background in this area. It includes chapters on the origin of genital systems, the structure of ovarian follicles, mechanisms of ovulation, the cortical reaction, oviducts, oviparity, and amazing examples of viviparity.
  table of contents: Female Genital Systems of Fish -- Ovarian Follicles -- Ovulation -- Events Associated with Fertilization -- Oviducts and Oviparity -- Viviparity.
  note: edited by Donald B. McMillan.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Cell biology
  subject:
    topic: Developmental biology
  subject:
    topic: Animal ecology
  subject:
    topic: Animal anatomy
  subject:
    topic: Microscopy
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology
  subject:
    topic: Cell Biology
  subject:
    topic: Biological Microscopy
  subject:
    topic: Developmental Biology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Ecology
  classification: QL801-950.9
  classification: 571.31
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781402057151
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5715-1
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204183527.0
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