Environment and animal development : genes, life histories and plasticity /

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Environment and animal development (Print)
Corporate Author: Society for Experimental Biology (Great Britain)
Other Authors: Thorndyke, M. C., Atkinson, D. (David), 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : BIOS Scientific, 2001.
Series:Experimental biology reviews.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The nature of animal developmental ecology
  • Molecular ecology and identification of marine invertebrate larvae
  • Hormonal regulation of reproductive development in crustaceans
  • Rearing lobsters at different temperatures; effects on muscle phenotype and molecular expression
  • Impact on temperature on the growth and differentiation of muscle in herring larvae
  • Lipid dietary effects on environmental stress tolerance
  • Influence of environmental factors on the ontogeny of the immune system in turbot
  • Developmental ecology of immunity in crustaceans
  • Contaminant-mediated pro-/antioxidant processes and oxidative damage in early life stages of fish
  • Endocrine disrupters, critical windows and developmental success in oyster larvae
  • Interrupted development in aquatic organisms : ecological context and physiological mechanisms
  • Interrupted development : the impadct of temperature on insect diapause
  • Development and hatching in cephalopod eggs : a model system for partitioning environmental and genetic effects on development
  • Offspring size responses to maternal temperature in extotherms
  • Growth strategies of extothermic animals in temperate environments
  • Mechanisms and patterns of selection on performance curves : thermal sensitivity of caterpillar growth
  • Fitness consequences of seasonal reproduction : experiments on the polychaete Nereis virens Sars
  • Overwintering biology as a guide to the establishment potential of non-native arthropods in the UK