Fish Reproduction - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1578083311 ISBN 13: 9781578083312

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

With the decline in world fish stocks, our knowledge of fish reproduction has become fundamental. Reproduction is an essential commitment to future generation. It is also a continuous development process throughout ontogeny, requiring energetic, ecological, physiological, anatomical, biochemical and endrocrinological adaptations. The first chapters highlight important issues affecting fish normal ways of reproductive development; details would focus on species living in opposite environments, such as tropical and polar fishes; far related, as teleosts and cartilaginous fishes; and finally, fish having different reproductive strategies. Thereafter, since many fishes live in detrimental environments, mainly induced by the continuous input of xenobiotic substances into waterways, the authors found it highly pertinent to include this topic. Herein, the authors fix their attention on the factors and mechanisms that may well affect reproductionrelated hormonal systems as also on known consequences for fish living i

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Rocha, Maria J ; Arukwe, Augustine; Kapoor, B.G.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1578083311
• ISBN 13: 9781578083312
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 629
• Herausgeber: ROCHA Maria Joao, Arukwe Augustine, Kapoor B. G.
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