| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 526 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
Planktonic copepods have those oar feet / Russ Hopcroft -- The front end -- sensory systems, feeding limbs, opal Teeth / Barbara Sullivan -- Let's go inside / Esther Lowe and Tai Soo Park -- Alpha taxonomy I / Bruce Frost -- Alpha taxonomy II. / Janet Bradford-Grieve and Taisoo Park -- Feeding I. Various modes / Jeannette Yen -- Feeding II. More about eating / Rudi Stricker -- Not being eaten I. Diel vertical migration / Mark Ohman, Steve Bollens -- Not being eaten II. More strategies -- Meeting & mating; sex in wide-open water / Atsushi Tsuda, Jeanette Yen -- Reproduction, free- vs. sac-spawners / Jeffery Runge, Barbara Niehoff, Thomas Kiørboe, Marina Sabatini -- Development / Catherine Johnson -- Sex determination in copepods / Roger Harris, Xabier Irigoien, Tran The Do -- Chromatin diminution : Marvelous Mitoses / Grace Wyngaard -- Copepodite diapause. Atlantic / Sheina Marshall, A.P. Orr, Mark Baumgartner, Ann Tarrant -- Copepodite diapause. Pacific & Indian / Sharon Smith -- Egg diapause / Edward Zillioux. J. Kenneth Johnson -- Molecular genetics applied to copepods / Ann Bucklin -- Beta Taxonomy, I. Copepod sprigs on the tree of life / Abraham Fleminger, Erica Goetze -- Beta Taxonomy II, Copepods in the stream of time / Geoffrey Boxshall, Rony Huys -- Copepod phylogenies from mitochondrial DNA sequences / Diego Figueroa |
| Summary |
""Oar Feet ..." 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 twenty practicing copepodologists emphasize their commitment to understanding these keystone aquatic organisms better. The focus is on the free-living forms in oceans and lakes, shaped like rice grains with feet. Forms and functions of their limbs are described, also heart, brain, eyes, siliceous teeth, gut and gonads. Variations are treated in food capture, mate-finding, reproduction and development of embryos, larvae (nauplii) and juveniles (copepodites). Adaptations including high-speed escape jumps, transparency, several modes of bioluminescence and diel vertical migrations to remain in the dark around the clock help copepods to avoid becoming predator gut contents. Emphasis is given to egg and larval modes of diapause and to chromatin diminution, a means shared with nematodes of dumping junk DNA. Species concepts and taxonomic practices for copepods are explained. Molecular genetics and high precision morphologic comparisons are marshalled to relate the distinct copepod orders and families as an evolutionary tree (a phylogeny) with its "root" in the Cambrian era"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 17, 2023) |
| Subject |
Copepoda.
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Copepoda.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Charles B., 1940- editor.
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| LC no. |
2022039028 |
| ISBN |
9780197637340 |
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0197637345 |
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9780197637333 |
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0197637337 |
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9780197637357 |
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0197637353 |
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