Oar feet and opal teeth : about copepods and copepodologists /
"Oar Feet and Opal Teeth is an extended introduction to the form and biology of the small (at most a few millimeters) crustaceans known as copepods, as a group Copepoda. Brief biographical sketches of more than 20 practicing copepodologists emphasize their commitment to understanding these keys...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Planktonic copepods have those oar feet
- The front end
- Let's go inside
- Alpha taxonomy I: distinguishing species
- Alpha taxonomy II: values of names species
- About feeding I: various modes
- Feeding II: more about eating
- Not being eaten I: Diel vertical migration
- Not being eaten II: other defenses
- Meeting and mating
- Reproduction
- Development
- Sex determination in copepods
- Chromatin diminution
- copepodite diapause: North Atlantic
- Copepodite diapause: in other oceans
- Egg diapause
- Molecular genetics applied to copepods
- Beta taxonomy I: how speciation works
- Beta taxonomy II: copepods in the stream of time
- Modern taxonomy and copepod phylogeny.