Freshwater Crayfish (eBook, PDF)

A Global Overview
Redaktion: Kawai, Tadashi; Scholtz, Gerhard; Faulkes, Zen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

For their great commercial importance as a human food delicacy, crayfish are now becoming of wider interest to molecular biologists, and also to conservationists due to the fact that in some countries many of the native crayfish species are under threat from human activity, disease, and competition from other introduced crayfish species. Helmed by

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 679
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466586406
• Artikelnr.: 43978243

Autorenporträt

Tadashi Kawai, Zen Faulkes, Gerhard Scholtz

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: New model organism for biology. General Biology, Happy Birthday!
The First Decade of Marmorkrebs research-Results and Perspective.
Conservation, Predicting the range expansion of a partenogenic crayfish
invader. Experimental Biology, Marble Crayfish as A New Model Organism and
A New Threat to native Crayfish Conservation. Physiology, Tolerance of
Marbled Crayfish Procambarusfallax f. virginalis to Low Temperature in
Nordic Climate. Reproductive biology, Parthenogenesis: Mechanisms,
evolution, and its Relevance to the Role of Marbled Crayfish as Model
Organism and Potential Invader. Aquarium, Marbled crayfish Gaining Ground
in Europe: the Role of the Pet Trade as invasion Pathway. Cell biology,
Research on stem cells, Ageing, Cancer Resistance, and Epigenetics in
Marbled Crayfish and Relatives: Potential Benefits for Human Biology and
Medicine. Section 2: Crayfish: new developments. Aquaculture,Developing
Markets for New Product: Aquacultured Redclaw in Mexico. The Biology of
Crayfish Plague Pathogen Aphanomycesastaci: Current Answers to Most
Frequent Questions. Environment, A Review of Current Techniques for
Sampling Freshwater Crayfish. Behavior, Behavioral ecology of invasive
crayfish: its contribution to conservation. Prevent crayfish plague, Chaos
and Adaptation in the Pathogen-Host Relationship in Relation to the
Conservation: the Case of the Crayfish Plague and the Noble Crayfish.
Monitoring, Crayfish as Tools in Water Quality Monitoring. Phylogeny,
Phylogenetic Estimate of the Freshwater Crayfish (Decapoda: Astacidea)
using Morphology and Molecules. Section 3: Global overview of freshwater
crayfish biology. Atlantic North America, The Crayfish Fauna of Canada and
the United States in North America. Middle America, The Crayfish of Middle
America. Pacific North America, Historical Biogeography of Pacifastacus
crayfishes and their Branchiobdellidan and Entocytherid Ectosymbionts in
Western North America. South America, The Native South American Crayfish
(Decapoda: Parastacidae). Oceania, the Freshwater Crayfish of the Oceania
Region. Africa, Crayfish of Africa. Europe, Crayfish in Europe:
Biogeography, Ecology and Conservation. Asia, Taxonomic Synopsis and
Biology. Crayfish worms, Branchiobdellidans (Annelida: Clitellata),
Ectosymbionts of Crayfishes.