Hagfish BiologySusan L. Edwards, Gregory G. Goss With over 70 species still populating the world's oceans after approximately 500 million years, hagfishes are essential benthic organisms that play a vital role in understanding the evolutionary origins of vertebrate life and the maintenance of the oceanic ecosystem. Hagfish Biology is a long overdue book for communicating and furthering study on t |
Contents
Hagfish fisheries research | 41 |
Fossil hagfishes fossil cyclostomes and the lost world of ostracoderms | 73 |
Hagfish embryology Staging table and relevance to the evolution and development of vertebrates | 95 |
Photoreception in hagfishes Insights into the evolution of vision | 129 |
The hagfish heart | 149 |
Endothelium in hagfish | 161 |
The adaptive immune system of hagfish | 207 |
Hypothalamicpituitarygonadal endocrine system in the hagfish | 227 |
Corticosteroid signaling pathways in hagfish | 257 |
Acidbase and ionic regulation in hagfish | 277 |
Feeding digestion and nutrient absorption in hagfish | 299 |
Hagfish slime Origins functions and mechanisms | 321 |
Back Cover | 373 |
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