For their great commercial importance as a human food delicacy, crayfish are now becoming of wider interest to molecular biologists, and also to conservationists due to the fact that in some countries many of the native crayfish species are under threat from human activity, disease, and competition from other introduced crayfish species. Helmed by

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Section 1: Marbled Crayfish: A New Model Organism for Biology
Chapter 1: GENERAL BIOLOGY: Happy Birthday! The First Decade of Marmorkrebs Research—Results and Perspectives
Chapter 2: Predicting the Distribution of Crayfish Species: A Case Study Using Marble Crayfi sh
Chapter 3: Marble Crayfish as A New Model Organism and A New Threat to Native Crayfi sh Conservation
Chapter 4: A Preliminary Study on the Tolerance of Marble Crayfish Procambarus fallax f. virginalis to Low Temperature in Nordic Climate
Chapter 5: Reproductive Biology: Parthenogenesis: Mechanisms, Evolution, and its Relevance to the Role of Marbled Crayfish as Model Organism and Potential Invader
Chapter 6: Aquarium: Marbled Crayfi sh Gaining Ground in Europe: the Role of the Pet Trade as Invasion Pathway
Chapter 7: Cell Biology Research on Stem Cells, Aging, Cancer Resistance, and Epigenetics in Marbled Crayfish and Relatives: Potential Benefi ts for Human Biology and Medicine
Section 2: Crayfish: New Developments
Chapter 8: Aquaculture: Developing Markets for a New Product: Aquacultured Redclaw in Mexico
Chapter 9: The Biology of Crayfish Plague Pathogen Aphanomyces astaci: Current Answers to Most Frequent Questions
Chapter 10: A Review of Current Techniques for Sampling Freshwater Crayfish
Chapter 11: Behavior: Behavioral Ecology of Crayfish: Its Contribution to Conservation and Management
Chapter 12: Chaos and Adaptation in the Pathogen-Host Relationship in Relation to the Conservation: The Case of the Crayfi sh Plague and the Noble Crayfish
Chapter 13: Crayfish as Tools of Water Quality Monitoring
Chapter 14: Phylogenetic Estimate of the Freshwater Crayfish (Decapoda: Astacidea) using Morphology and Molecules
Section 3: Global Overview of Freshwater Crayfish Biology
Chapter 15: Asia
Chapter 16: The Crayfish Fauna of Canada and the United States in North America
Chapter 17: Historical Biogeography of Pacifastacus Crayfishes and their Branchiobdellidan and Entocytherid Ectosymbionts in Western North America
Chapter 18: The Crayfish of Middle America
Chapter 19: The Native South American Crayfish (Decapoda: Parastacidae)
Chapter 20: Oceania: The Freshwater Crayfish of the Oceania Region
Chapter 21: Crayfish of Africa
Chapter 22: Crayfish in Europe: Biogeography, Ecology and Conservation
Chapter 23: Global Overview of Branchiobdellida (Annelida: Clitellata)
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