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Hagfish Biology
About this book
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
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Editors
- Contributors
- chapter one: Anatomy of the Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)
- chapter two: Hagfish fisheries research
- chapter three: Fossil hagfishes, fossil cyclostomes, and the lost world of "ostracoderms"
- chapter four: Hagfish embryology
- chapter five: Photoreception in hagfishes
- chapter six: The hagfish heart
- chapter seven: Endothelium in hagfish
- chapter eight: The adaptive immune system of hagfish
- chapter nine: Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal endocrine system in the hagfish
- chapter ten: Corticosteroid signaling pathways in hagfish
- chapter eleven: Acid/base and ionic regulation in hagfish
- chapter twelve: Feeding, digestion, and nutrient absorption in hagfish
- chapter thirteen: Hagfish slime
- Index