Download or read book Developmental Biology of Teleost Fishes written by Yvette W. Kunz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-11-04 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the compiling of this book, the vast literature dealing with the descriptive morphology, histology and cytology of teleost development has been combed and integrated. The book is divided into 21 chapters, starting with the egg and embryonic development up to hatching. This is followed by a description of ectodermal, mesodermal and entodermal derivatives and the development of various organs. The subject index, species index and the abundant illustrations add extra value to this long awaited book. Developmental Biology of Teleost Fishes will be a valuable tool for scientists and students in the fields of biology, developmental biology, molecular biology and fish biology.
Download or read book Development of Non teleost Fishes written by Yvette W Kunz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date compilation of the development of non-teleost fishes has so far been unavailable. These fishes include the jawless fishes (hagfish and lampreys), the cartilaginous fishes (sharks, rays, skates and chimaeras), the forerunners of the teleostei: the cladistia (bichirs and reedfish), the chondrostei (sturgeon and paddlefish, the neopterygii (gar pike and bowfin), and, finally, the closest relations to the tetrapods: the lungfishes (the coelacanh [living fossil], Protopterus of Africa, Lepidosiren of South America and Neoceratodus of Australia). Therefore, the present volume has been devoted to closing the gap by an up-to-date scientific review of the early life-history of these non-teleost fishes (agnathi excepted).
Download or read book Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes written by Robert J. Wootton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes is the first integrated review of the reproductive biology of the bony fishes, which are the most species-rich and diversified group of vertebrates. Teleosts display remarkable variation in their modes of reproduction, and this volume is intended to provide a framework for understanding the remarkable reproductive diversity of this group. It describes their reproductive biology using, wherever possible, phylogenetic analyses and life-history theory as a means to interpret the information. The book addresses the genetic, physiological, behavioural, ecological, evolutionary and applied aspects of teleost reproduction in a comparative framework that emphasises the adaptive basis of reproductive diversity. Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes provides a comprehensive synthesis of fish reproduction that will be of great interest to life scientists, particularly ecologists, evolutionary biologists, physiologists and advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and research workers requiring a comprehensive overview of fish reproduction. The book is suitable for courses in fish biology and ecology, reproductive physiology and reproductive genetics. It also addresses applied questions and will be of value for courses on fisheries science and aquaculture. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where biological sciences, fisheries science and aquaculture are studied and taught should have several copies of this important book on their shelves.
Download or read book Notes on the Embryology and Larval Development of Twelve Teleostean Fishes written by Albert Kuntz and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developmental Biology of Teleost Fishes written by Yvette Kunz-Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changes in the Visual System of Teleost Fishes During Growth and Settlement written by Julia Shand and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution of Morphological Diversity in Teleost Fishes written by Sarah Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhabiting nearly every aquatic habitat and with over 32,000 species, teleost fishes are a major evolutionary success story. From tuna to seahorses and frogfishes, their species richness and ecological diversity is matched by extraordinary morphological diversity. Our understanding of the factors that contribute to this diversity is largely based on taxonomically-focused studies that are assumed to scale up to patterns seen across fishes. While we have a rich body of knowledge of how fishes have adapted to specific lifestyles, we lack a thorough understanding of how these factors have influenced patterns of diversity. In this dissertation, I explore the constraints and drivers of morphological diversification. Using phylogenetic comparative methods, with insights from ecology, functional morphology, and biomechanics, I investigate how body size, habitat transitions, and ecosystem occupation have contributed to body shape diversity across teleost fishes. Together, my three chapters contribute new insights into the intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms responsible for the evolution of morphological diversity in fishes. In my first chapter, I investigate the influence of size on body shape disparity across reef fishes. Body size is not only crucially important to organismal life but can generate widespread shape diversity through allometric growth. Using geometric morphometrics to capture body shape across nearly 800 species, I find that body size not only accounts for very little morphological variation across fishes, but the relationship between shape and size is highly variable across families. I also find that rate of morphological evolution is negatively correlated with body size, while morphological disparity increases with size. This study demonstrates that-in contrast to other vertebrate lineages-body size has not been a significant constraint on morphological diversification in spiny-rayed fishes. In my second chapter, I examine how habitat transitions influence morphological diversification. The invasion of new habitats has the potential to completely reshape adaptive landscapes, introducing novel ecologies and adaptive zones. Fishes have repeatedly transitioned along the benthic-pelagic axis, with varying degrees of association with the substrate. Generalizing on consistent morphological trends reported in the literature, my second chapter focuses on the effects of habitat on body shape diversification across 3,344 marine teleost fishes. I compare rates and patterns of evolution in eight linear measurements of body shape among fishes that live in pelagic, demersal, and benthic habitats. I find that benthic living both facilitates the evolution of novel body shapes, such as extremely wide-bodied or elongate forms, and increases the rate of body shape evolution. Surprisingly, while habitat use only slightly affects average fish body shape, phenotypic variance is reasonably high across all habitats, mirroring that of all fishes combined. Instead of habitat serving as a constraint to fish morphology, this study highlights a prime example of the potential for habitat colonization to generate widespread morphological innovation and diversification. My third chapter expands on the concepts from my second chapter, taking advantage of the entire 6,000 species morphological dataset to compare patterns and processes morphological diversification both within benthic, demersal, and pelagic habitats and across freshwater and marine ecosystems. Using a novel comparative approach, I contrast the primary axis of morphological diversification in each habitat with the axis defined by phylogenetic signal. By comparing angles between these axes, I find that fishes in corresponding habitats have more similar primary axes of morphological diversity than would be expected by chance, but that different historical processes underlie these parallel patterns in freshwater and marine environments. Combined, my last two chapters demonstrate how ecological opportunities at many scales can have broad consequences for the morphological diversification of teleost fishes.
Download or read book Evolution and Development of Fishes written by Zerina Johanson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish, or lower vertebrates, occupy the basal nodes of the vertebrate phylogeny, and are therefore crucial in interpreting almost every feature of more advanced vertebrates, including amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Recent research focuses on combining evolutionary observations - primarily from the fish fossil record - with developmental data from living fishes, in order to better interpret evolutionary history and vertebrate phylogeny. This book highlights the importance of this research in the interpretation of vertebrate evolution, bringing together world-class palaeontologists and biologists to summarise the most interesting, current and cutting-edge topics in fish evolution and development. It will be an invaluable tool for researchers in early vertebrate palaeontology and evolution, and those particularly interested in the interface between evolution and development.
Download or read book The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes written by Tony J. Pitcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the behaviour of teleosts, a well-defined, highly successful, taxonomic group of vertebrate animals sharing a common body plan and forming the vast majority of living bony fishes. There are weH over 22000 living species of teleosts, including nearly all those of importance in com mercial fisheries and aquaculture. Teleosts are represented injust about every conceivable aquatic environment from temporary desert pools to the deep ocean, from soda lakes to sub-zero Antarctic waters. Behaviour is the primary interface between these effective survival machines and their environment: behavioural plasticity is one of the keys to their success. The study of animal behaviour has undergone revolutionary changes in the past decade under the dual impact of behavioural ecology and sociobiology. The modern body of theory provides quantitatively testable and experi mentaHy accessible hypotheses. Much current work in animal behaviour has concentrated on birds and mammals, animals with ostensibly more complex structure, physiology and behavioural capacity, but there is a growing body of information about the behaviour of fishes. There is now increasing awareness that the same ecological and evolutionary rules govern teleost fish, and that their behaviour is not just a simplified version of that seen in birds and mammals. The details of fish behaviour intimately reflect unique and efficient adaptations to their three-dimensional aquatic environment.
Download or read book Notes on the Embryology and Larval Development of Twelve Teleostean Fishes written by Albert Kuntz and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Non parallel Evolution in North American Post glacial Fishes written by Krista Oke and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Parallel evolution, the repeated, independent evolution of similar traits in similar environments, has played an important role in evolutionary biology, in part because repeated, habitat-associated divergence provides evidence for a deterministic role of natural selection in evolution. However, non-parallelism (variation in the direction or magnitude of divergence among ecotype pairs) has increasingly been reported in ostensibly parallel traits. In my thesis, I first demonstrate that non-parallelism is both common and underappreciated in studies of parallel evolution in fishes. The ubiquity of non-parallelism motivates my subsequent chapters, which investigate different potential drivers of non-parallelism in separate study systems. By comparing wild-caught and common-garden lake-stream stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from three evolutionary replicates, I show that plasticity is especially important in certain traits and in one replicate. In general, plasticity leads to greater parallelism in body shape than has been achieved by genetic divergence in these three watersheds. Next, I consider non-parallelism between the sexes in the body shape divergence between beach-creek spawning sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka). My results suggest that sexual dimorphism leads to non-parallelism between the sexes to the extent that excluding either sex would lead to different conclusions regarding the extent of parallelism, which demonstrates the importance of considering individuals from both sexes in studies of parallel evolution. Finally, I investigate the role of evolutionary history in independent lineages of pink salmon (O. gorbuscha) in common habitats, and find that evolutionary history plays a relatively minor role in shaping migratory phenology, but does contribute to non-parallelism. Overall, my thesis points to the fact that although non-parallelism is underappreciated and rarely formally quantified, seeking to identify the drivers of non-parallelism could provide many valuable insights into the processes that shape adaptive divergence and speciation." --
Download or read book Experimental Studies on Nerve Growth Factor in Teleost Fishes written by Judith Shulman Weis and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correlated Evolution of Teleost Fish Rhodopsin with Habitat written by Amir-Arsalan Sabouhanian and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical challenge in molecular evolutionary biology is to determine how changes in protein coding sequence correlate with ecology, physiology, or morphology. While statistical approaches aiming to investigate signatures of selection at the molecular level have been developed, methods designed to correlate these findings with macroscopic traits remain understudied. Here, I investigated amino acid replacements in the visual pigment rhodopsin (RH1) of teleost fishes that show significant association with shifts in habitat, using both existing phylogenetic comparative methods, as well as novel implementation of sequence simulations and ancestral reconstructions. Through an unbiased examination of amino acid sites in RH1, I found several substitutions that are known to affect spectral sensitivity or other properties of rhodopsin. Thirteen additional control genes showed markedly weaker associations between amino acid substitutions and habitat compared with teleost RH1. The framework established in this thesis can similarly be used to study other genes and macroscopic traits.
Download or read book Studies in the Control of Pigment Cells and Light Reactions in Recent Teleost Fishes written by Priscilla Rasquin and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analysis of the Development of the Optic Nerve and Tectum in the Teleost Fish written by Ernest Schmatolla and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conserved Synteny in the Genomes of Teleost Fish Aids in the Rapid Development of Genomic Tools to Query Fundamental Biological and Evolutionary Questions written by Eric B. Rondeau and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As two species diverge, much of their genomes begin to differentiate. In many lineages, however, the genomic structure remains remarkably intact, with orthologous gene content maintained across millions of years and significant changes to their biological characteristics. The maintenance of gene content is defined as conserved synteny while the preservation of gene order is defined as conserved linkage; the conservation of both can be incredibly informative when interrogating and comparing two genomes. In non-model organisms, linkage conservation to a well-developed model allows informed, cost-effective and rapid answers to fundamental biological questions without generation of equivalent resources. With the development of new model organisms, we can begin to discuss more fundamental evolutionary concepts, such as the maintenance of chromosomal gene content across larger evolutionary time-scales, or the reorganization that occurs in chromosomes following major genomic events such as whole-genome duplications. In this work, I utilized the rapid development of primary genomic resources in the non-model teleost sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) to demonstrate that conserved linkage to a model genomic reference can identify the gene most likely responsible for genetic sex-control. I then assembled the first genome for a non-duplicated member of the teleost lineage Protacanthopterygii, the northern pike (Esox lucius), and demonstrated the conservation of synteny between three major lineages of teleosts, the Protacanthopterygii, the Acanthopterygii and the Ostariophysi. I further showed that the genome of northern pike retains an ancestral teleost organization and pre-duplicated genome in comparison to the economically important Salmoniformes. Finally, with continued improvements of the genome to the chromosome level, I demonstrated the degree of conserved linkage maintained between Atlantic salmon and northern pike and explained how conserved linkage through both genomes could be used to improve the genome assembly of the other, even with over 125 million years of separation. As genomic technology continues to advance and new genomic resources become available, the continued refinement of genome re-organization post duplication will be revealed, and this pre-duplication outgroup will continue to push our understanding of the effects of genome duplication, as we transition from genome organization to functional modifications of gene duplicates following duplication.
Download or read book Teleosts written by Skylar Carone and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of proliferation zones in the adult brain is strongly reduced in the transition between fish and tetrapods and even more in mammals compared to non-mammalian vertebrates. While the adult mammalian brain generally contains only two neurogenic areas, the adult teleost brain displays numerous proliferative niches. This book discusses the entire neurogenesis, the sexual reproduction of teleosts and touches base on the occurrence and possible role of heat shock protein 70 in the developing sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax (L.). The cytokine receptor signaling in teleosts are critical mediators of cell-cell communication throughout the life cycle. Over recent years, much has been learned about the cytokine receptor repertoire in teleosts and this book explains how they are utilised. Other topics the authors of this book presented are the central nervous system of the teleosts, their thermoregulatory behaviour, the lipid peroxidation in teleosts, and finally, the molecular evolution and environmental acclimation of fish skeletal muscle tropomyosin.
