Physiology of Molluscs: A Collection of Selected Reviews (2-Volume Set)

About this book

Physiology of Molluscs: A Collection of Selected Reviews is an informative two-volume set that brings together some of the most important recent and unique developments in molluscan physiology. Volume One focuses on shell structure, mineralization, the dynamics of calcium transport, shell drilling, byssus proteins, locomotion, and reproduction. Volume Two includes reviews on the neural mechanisms of learning, reproductive behavior, responses to environmental stress and hormones, and neurotransmitters.

Contents

Volume 1
- Developing Perspectives on Molluscan Shells, Part 1: Introduction and Molecular Biology
- Developing Perspectives on Molluscan Shells, Part 2: Cellular Aspects
- Drilling into Hard Substrate by Naticid and Muricid Gastropods: A Chemo-Mechanical Process Involved in Feeding
- The Role of Metal Ions in the Mussel Byssus
- Physiology of Envenomation by Conoidean Gastropods
- Escape Responses by Jet Propulsion in Scallops
- Locomotion of Coleoid Cephalopods
- Key Molecular Regulators of Metabolic Rate Depression in the Estivating Snail Otala lacteal
- Gastropod Ecophysiological Response to Stress

Volume 2
- Associative Memory Mechanisms in the Pond Snail Lymnaea stagnalis
- From Likes to Dislikes: Conditioned Taste Aversion in the Great Pond Snail (Lymnaea stagnalis)
- Stress, Memory, Forgetting and What Lymnaea Can Tell Us about a Stressful World
- Learning and Memory in the Living Fossil, Chambered Nautilus
- The Cephalopod Brain: Motion Control, Learning, and Cognition
- Endocrine Control of Gametogenesis and Spawning in Bivalves
- The Physiology of Reproduction in Cephalopods
- The Physiology of Pre- and Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Freshwater Snails
- Reproductive Strategies in Stylommatophoran Gastropods
- Physiological Functions of Gastropod Peptides and Neurotransmitters

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