The biology of reproduction / Giuseppe Fusco, University of Padova, Alessandro Minelli, University of Padova

Author:: Fusco, Giuseppe, 1965-
Published:: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Copyright Date:: ©2019
Physical Description:: xviii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Additional Creators:: Minelli, Alessandro

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introductory Concepts -- 1.1.A First Definition of Reproduction -- Box 1.1 Spontaneous Generation -- Box 1.2 Other Reproductions -- 1.2.Asexual and Sexual Reproduction -- Box 1.3 Sexual or Asexual? -- 1.3.Generation, Life Cycle, Development -- 1.3.1.Generation -- 1.3.2.Life Cycle -- 1.3.3.Development -- 1.4.Reproduction and Individuality -- 1.4.1.Genetic Uniqueness of the Individual -- 1.4.2.Genetic Uniformity of the Individual -- 1.4.3.Autonomy and Physiological Unity of the Individual -- 1.4.4.How Many Kinds of Individual? -- 1.5.Reproduction and Senescence -- Box 1.4 Sex and Death -- 1.6.Difficult Boundaries -- 1.6.1.Reproduction vs. Transformation -- 1.6.2.Reproduction vs. Growth -- 1.6.3.Reproduction vs. Regeneration -- 2.Reproduction and Life Cycle -- 2.1.Alternation of Nuclear Phases -- Box 2.1 Cell Cycle -- 2.1.1.Isomorphic and Heteromorphic Haplodiplontic Cycles -- 2.1.2.Haplodiplontic Cycles with Homospory and Heterospory -- 2.1.3.Haplodiplontic Cycles and Asexual Reproduction -- 2.2.Alternation of Sexual and Asexual Generations: Metagenetic Cycles -- Box 2.2 The `Immortal Jellyfish' -- Box 2.3 Metagenesis vs. Metamorphosis -- 2.3.Alternation of Amphigonic and Parthenogenetic Generations: Heterogonic Cycles -- 2.4.Alternation of Gonochoric and Hermaphrodite Generations: Heterogenic Cycles -- 2.5.Alternation of Solitary and Colonial Generations -- 2.6.Alternation of Unicellular and Multicellular Generations -- 2.7.Alternation of Generations by Seasonal Polyphenism -- 2.8.Cycles with Reproductive Options -- 2.9.Distribution of Reproductive Phases Within One Generation -- 2.10.Generation Times -- 3.The Natural History of Reproduction -- 3.1.Asexual Reproduction -- 3.1.1.Asexual Reproduction in Unicellular Organisms -- 3.1.1.1.Cell Division in Prokaryotes -- 3.1.1.2.Cell Division in Unicellular Eukaryotes -- 3.1.2.Asexual Reproduction in Multicellular Organisms -- 3.1.2.1.Unicellular Propagules -- Box 3.1 Spores -- 3.1.2.2.Multicellular Propagules in Plants and Fungi -- 3.1.2.3.Multicellular Propagules in Metazoans -- 3.1.2.4.Polyembryony and Larval Amplification -- 3.2.Sexual Reproduction: Gametes and Syngamy -- Box 3.2 The Evolutionary Enigma of Sex -- 3.2.1.Isogamety, Anisogamety, Oogamety -- Box 3.3 How Many Sexes? -- 3.2.2.Gametogamy, Gamontogamy, Autogamy -- 3.2.3.Cryptic Sex -- 3.3.Distribution of Sex Conditions Within a Species or Population -- 3.3.1.Gonochorism (Dioecy) -- 3.3.1.1.Secondary Sexual Characters in Plants -- 3.3.1.2.Secondary Sexual Characters in Animals -- 3.3.2.Hermaphroditism (Monoecy) -- 3.3.2.1.Monoecy in Land Plants -- 3.3.2.2.Hermaphroditism in Metazoans -- 3.3.3.Androdioecy, Gynodioecy and Trioecy -- 3.4.Germ Cells in Sexual Reproduction -- 3.4.1.Production of Gametes in Animals -- Box 3.4 Germline Segregation in Animals -- 3.4.1.1.Reproductive Organs in Animals -- 3.4.1.2.Gametogenesis in Animals -- 3.4.1.3.Gametes in Animals -- 3.4.2.Production of Gametes and Spores in Plants -- 3.4.2.1.Reproductive Organs, Gametogenesis and Sporogenesis in Land Plants -- 3.4.2.2.Gametes in Land Plants -- 3.5.Biparental Sexual Reproduction (Amphigony) -- 3.5.1.Encounter and Fusion of Gametes -- 3.5.2.Modes of Gamete Encounter -- 3.5.2.1.Sperm Transfer in Animals -- 3.5.2.2.Transfer of Gametes in Embryophytes -- 3.5.3.Strategies that Promote Encounters Between Gametes -- 3.5.3.1.Strategies of External Fertilization -- 3.5.3.2.Meeting of Partners in Animals with Internal Fertilization -- 3.5.3.3.Pollination in Seed Plants -- 3.5.4.Fertilization -- 3.5.4.1.Fertilization in Animals -- 3.5.4.2.Fertilization in Seed Plants -- 3.5.5.Reproductive Incompatibility -- 3.5.6.Mating Systems -- 3.6.Uniparental Sexual Reproduction -- 3.6.1.Self-Fertilization -- 3.6.2.Parthenogenesis -- 3.6.2.1.Thelytokous Parthenogenesis -- 3.6.2.2.Arrhenotokous and Pseudoarrhenotokous Parthenogenesis -- 3.6.2.3.Geographical Parthenogenesis -- 3.6.2.4.Accidental Parthenogenesis -- 3.6.2.5.Paedogenesis -- 3.6.2.6.Cyclical Parthenogenesis -- 3.6.2.7.Hybrids and Parthenogenesis -- 3.6.2.8.Infectious Parthenogenesis -- 3.6.2.9.Parthenogenesis in Plants -- 3.6.3.Gynogenesis -- 3.6.4.Androgenesis -- 3.6.5.Hybridogenesis -- 4.Parental Investment in Sexual Reproduction -- 4.1.A First Look at Parental Investment Costs -- 4.1.1.Reproduction Costs in Animals -- 4.1.2.Reproduction Costs in Seed Plants -- 4.2.Fecundity -- 4.2.1.Measuring Fecundity -- 4.2.2.r/k Reproductive Strategies -- 4.3.Temporal Distribution of Reproductive Effort -- Box 4.1 Pregnancy, Lactation and Sexual Maturity in Mammals -- 4.4.Investment of Animals in Egg and Embryo Development -- 4.4.1.Oviparity -- 4.4.2.Viviparity and Incubation -- 4.4.3.Lecithotrophy -- 4.4.4.Matrotrophy -- 4.5.Parental Care in Animals -- 4.6.Investment of Plants in Gametophyte and Sporophyte Development -- 4.6.1.Gametophyte Development -- 4.6.2.Sporophyte Development -- 4.6.3.Seed and Fruit Development -- 5.Genetics and Cytogenetics of Reproduction -- 5.1.Asexual Reproduction -- Box 5.1 Clones -- 5.1.1.Genetic Variation Resulting from New Mutations -- 5.1.1.1.Mutations Resulting from Errors in DNA Replication -- 5.1.1.2.Mutations Resulting from Other Causes -- 5.1.1.3.Mutations and Mosaicism -- 5.1.2.Genetic Variation Resulting from Recombination -- 5.1.3.Genetic Variation Resulting from Stochastic Segregation -- 5.1.3.1.Random Segregation of Plasmids in the Prokaryotic Cell -- 5.1.3.2.Mitotic Segregation of Cytoplasmic Organelles -- Box 5.2 Genetic Elements of the Prokaryotic Cell -- Box 5.3 Genetic Elements of the Eukaryotic Cell -- 5.1.3.3.Amitosis in Ciliates -- 5.1.4.Epigenetic Variation -- 5.1.5.Unconventional Mechanisms of Cell Division in Eukaryotes -- 5.1.5.1.Division of Multinucleate Cells -- 5.1.5.2.Variants of Mitosis -- 5.1.6.Intermittent Episodes of Sexual Reproduction -- 5.2.Sexual Reproduction and Sex -- 5.2.1.Sex in Prokaryotes -- 5.2.1.1.Mechanisms of Genetic Exchange in Prokaryotes -- 5.2.1.2.Quantitative Aspects of Genetic Exchange in Prokaryotes -- 5.2.2.General Aspects of Sexual Reproduction in Eukaryotes -- 5.2.2.1.Synopsis of the Sources of Genetic Variation -- 5.2.2.2.Independent Assortment of Chromosomes and Chromatids -- 5.2.2.3.Recombination in the Strict Sense -- Box 5.4 Recombination -- 5.2.2.4.Syngamy -- 5.2.3.Genetics of Hereditary Transmission Through Different Modes of Sexual Reproduction -- 5.2.3.1.Amphigony -- 5.2.3.2.Self-Fertilization -- 5.2.3.3.Parthenogenesis -- 5.2.3.4.Gynogenesis and Pseudogamy -- 5.2.3.5.Hybridogenesis -- 5.2.3.6.Paternal Genome Loss -- 5.2.3.7.Androgenesis -- 5.2.4.Sexual Leakage -- 5.2.5.Special Cases of Sexual Processes in Eukaryotes -- 5.2.5.1.Ciliate Conjugation -- 5.2.5.2.Parasexual Cycle in Fungi -- 5.2.5.3.Chimerism -- 6.Determination of Sex and Mating Type -- 6.1.Genetic Sex-Determination Systems -- 6.1.1.Chromosomal Sex-Determination Systems -- 6.1.1.1.XY and ZW Systems -- Box 6.1 X: A in Drosophila -- 6.1.1.2.X0 and Z0 Systems -- 6.1.1.3.UV System -- 6.1.1.4.Systems with Multiple Heterochromosomes -- 6.1.1.5.Other Chromosomal Systems -- 6.1.1.6.Dosage Compensation -- Box 6.2 Dmrt Genes and Sex Development in Animals -- 6.1.2.Genie Sex-Determination Systems -- 6.1.3.Haplodiploid Sex-Determination System -- 6.2.Environmental Sex-Determination Systems -- 6.2.1.Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination -- 6.2.2.Sex Determination Through Interaction with Conspecifics -- 6.2.3.Other Environmental Sex-Determination Systems -- 6.2.3.1.Photoperiod -- 6.2.3.2.Water pH -- 6.2.3.3.Nutrition -- 6.2.3.4.Body Size -- 6.2.3.5.Parasites -- 6.3.Maternal Sex-Determination Systems -- 6.4.Mixed Sex-Determination Systems and Random Sex Determination -- 6.5.Notes on Sexual Differentiation -- 6.6.Determination of Mating Type -- 7.Reproduction: a Taxonomic Survey -- 7.1.Protists (Unicellular Eukaryotes) -- 7.1.1.Foraminifera -- 7.1.2.Apicomplexans (Sporozoans) -- 7.1.3.Dinoflagellates (Dinophyceans) -- 7.1.4.Ciliates -- 7.1.5.Diatoms -- 7.1.6.Xanthophyceans -- 7.1.7.Hypermastigines -- 7.1.8.Choanoflagellates -- 7.1.9.Mycetozoans -- 7.2.Brown Algae (Phaeophyceans) -- 7.3.Red Algae (Rhodophyceans) -- 7.4.Green Plants (Viridiplantae) -- 7.4.1.Green Algae -- Box 7.1 The Complex Life Cycles of Some Green Algae -- 7.4.2.Bryophytes -- 7.4.3.Pteridophytes -- 7.4.4.Gymnosperms -- 7.4.5.Angiosperms -- 7.5.Fungi -- 7.5.1.Chytridiomycetes -- 7.5.2.Zygomycetes -- 7.5.3.Glomeromycetes -- 7.5.4.Ascomycetes -- 7.5.5.Basidiomycetes -- 7.5.6.Lichens -- 7.5.7.Microsporidians -- 7.6.Metazoans -- 7.6.1.Sponges -- 7.6.2.Cnidarians -- Box 7.2 Special Cases of Cnidarian Life Cycles -- 7.6.3.Ctenophores -- 7.6.4.Placozoans, Orthonectids, Dicyemids -- 7.6.5.Acoelomorphs -- 7.6.6.Gastrotrichs -- 7.6.7.Gnathostomulids and Micrognathozoans -- 7.6.8.Synderms -- 7.6.9.Flatworms (Rhabditophorans and Catenulids) -- 7.6.10.Cycliophorans -- 7.6.11.Entoprocts -- 7.6.12.Nemerteans -- 7.6.13.Bryozoans, Phoronids, Brachiopods -- 7.6.14.Molluscs -- 7.6.15.Annelids (Including Pogonophorans, Sipunculids and Echiurids) -- 7.6.16.Tardigrades and Onychophorans -- 7.6.17.Nematomorphs, Priapulids, Loriciferans and Kinorhynchs -- 7.6.18.Nematodes -- 7.6.19.Arthropods -- 7.6.20.Chaetognaths -- 7.6.21.Echinoderms -- 7.6.22.Hemichordates -- 7.6.23.Cephalochordates -- 7.6.24.Tunicates -- 7.6.25.Vertebrates or Craniotes.

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