Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 4: Ecdysozoa II: Crustacea

Description:

This volume forms part of a six-volume work summarising our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. This second volume on ecdysozoans covers all animals commonly known as crustaceans. While 'Crustacea' is currently not considered as monophyletic, it still appears reasonable to combine its representatives in one joint volume due to their numerous shared morphological and developmental characteristics. Because of the huge variation in the amount of available developmental data between the various taxa, only the Dendrobranchiata, Astacida and Cirripedia are treated in individual chapters. The remaining data on crustacean development, usually incomplete and often patchy, is presented in two chapters summarizing early development and larval diversity, thereby also taking into account the data on fossil larval forms.