This series of volumes represents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of reproduction in vertebrates from fishes of all sorts through mammals. It is designed to provide a readable, coordinated description of reproductive basics in each group of vertebrates as well as an introduction to the latest trends in reproductive research and our understanding of reproductive events. Whereas each chapter and each volume is intended to stand alone as a review of that topic or vertebrate group, respectively, the volumes are prepared so as to provide a thorough topical treatment across the vertebrates. Terminology has been standardised across the volumes to reduce confusion where multiple names exist in the literature, and a comprehensive glossary of these terms and their alternative names is provided.
1. Sex Determination in Fishes
Bindhu Paul-Prasanth, Masaru Nakamura, and Yoshitaka Nagahama
2. Conserved and Divergent Features of Reproductive Neuroendocrinology in Teleost Fishes
Olivier Kah and Sylvie Dufour
3. Testicular Function and Hormonal Regulation in Fishes
Rosemary Knapp and Sharon L. Carlisle
4. Regulation of Ovarian Development and Function in Teleosts
R. Urbatzka, M.J. Rocha, and E. Rocha
5. Thyroid Hormone and Reproduction in Fishes
Jason C. Raine
6. Stress and Reproduction
Meghan L.M. Fuzzen, Nicholas J. Bernier and Glen Van Der Kraak
7. Hormones and Sexual Behavior of Teleost Fishes
David M. Gon alves and Rui F. Oliveira
8. Neuroendocrine Regulation in Sex-changing Fishes
Earl T. Larson
9. Hormonally-derived Sex Pheromones in Fishes
Norm Stacey
10. Reproduction in Agnathan Fishes: Lampreys and Hagfishes
Stacia A. Sower and Hiroshi Kawauchi
11. Hormones and Reproduction in Chondrichthyan Fishes
Karen P. Maruska and James Gelsleichter
12. Hormones and Reproduction of Sarcopterygian Fishes
Jean M.P. Joss
13. Endocrine-active Chemicals (EACs) in Fishes
Alan Milan Vajda
Dr David Norris has done research in environmental endocrinology and neuroendocrinology for more than 50 years. Dr Norris is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado. He received his bachelor’s degree from Baldwin-Wallace College and his PhD in 1966 from the University of Washington. Dr Norris has worked in the area of forensic botany with Dr Jane H. Bock, since 1982, primarily on developing the use of plant cells in the gastrointestinal tract to aid in homicide investigations. Dr Norris and Dr Bock have been involved in investigations in numerous states as well as throughout the State of Colorado. Dr Norris has been certified as an expert witness in this area for the State of Colorado. With Dr Bock, Dr Norris also has consulted on other botanical evidence for criminal investigations. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in 2014.
Kristin H. Lopez teaches human reproductive biology through the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado-Boulder. With a background in comparative reproduction and endocrinology, she is an editor of the five-volume work Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates (Academic Press, 2011). Her ongoing work with Colorado Diversity Initiative promotes increased access to higher education of underrepresented students in STEM.