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Viviparous fishes II

Print Book, English, 2010
First edition
New Life Publications, Homestead, FL, 2010
Conference papers and proceedings
xix, 505 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, color portraits ; 29 cm
826210592
Homages. Dedication of the III International Symposium on Viviparous Fishes to Ivan Dibble / Arcadio Valdé́s Gonzalez ; In recognition of Klaus Kallman for his outstanding contributions on the genetics of viviparous fish / Ronald B. Walter ; Contribution of John Wourms during the III International Symposium on Viviparous Fishes / Mari Carmen Uribe and Harry J. Grier ; A tribute to Salvador Contreras Balderas / Arcadio Valdé́s Gonzalez
Biogeography and paleontology. The distribution of viviparous fishes / Héctor Espinosa Pérez ; The derivation of the South American species of Poecilia Bloch and Schneider, 1801 (Teleostei; Cyprinodontiformes) / Fred N. Poeser ; Historical biogeography of the Goodinae (Cyprinodontiformes) / Omar Domínguez-Domínguez, Carlos Pedraza-Lara, Nayeli Gurrola-Sánchez, Silvia Perea, Rodolfo Pérez-Rodríguez, Isabel Israde-Alcántara. Víctor Hugo Garduño-Monroy, Ignacio Doadrio, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León, and Daniel R. Brooks ; Microscopical analysis of the fossil goodeid Tapatia occidentalis / Ana Fabiola Guzmán
Reproduction. Reproductive biology of species from the family Scorpaenidae and transition from oviparity to viviparity in the southern and northern Percomorpha / Dimitri A. Pavlov and Natal'ya G. Emel'yanova ; Population differences and the annual reproductive cycle in Poecilia latipinna (Atherinomorpha, Poeciliidae) (Lesueur, 1821) as affected by photoperiod and temperature / Harry J. Grier ; What do we know about reproduction of internally fertilizing halfbeaks (Zenarchopteridae)? / Hartmut Greven ; Sperm transfer : the first step toward viviparity / Robert Javonillo, John R. Burns, and Stanley H. Weitzman ; Testis structure, spermiogenesis and spermatozoon ultrastructure in the four-eyed fish, Anableps anableps L. 1758 (Teleostei: Atherinomorpha: Cyprinodontiformes: Anablepidae) / Anna Pecio, John R. Burns, and Harry J. Grier ; Morphology and asymmetry of the gonopodial suspensorium of Poeciliopsis infans (Teleostei: Poeciliidae) / Abraham Kobelkowsky ; New insights into Gambusia behavior / Noraida Martínez-Rivera, José L. Serrano-Vélez, George V. Lauder, and Eduardo Rosa-Molinar ; The ovarian epithelium in Jenynsiidae : its role in the sperm storage / Virginia Haydeé Martínez and Gladys Monasterio de Gonzo ; Ovarian structure and embryonic traits associated with viviparity in poeciliids and goodeids / Mari Carmen Uribe Aranzábal, Marcela Aguilar-Morales, Gabino De la Rosa-Cruz, Adriana García-Alarcón, Juan Carlos Campuzano-Caballero, and Sandra M. Guerrero-Estévez ; Modeling the evolution of complex reproductive adaptations in poeciliid fishes : matrotrophy and superfetation / Joel C. Trexler and Donald L. DeAngelis ; Hypotheses to explain the evolution of superfetation in viviparous fishes / J. Jaime Zúñiga-Vega, Constantino Macías-Garcia, and Jerald B. Johnson ; Survey of matrotrophy in lecithotrophic poeciliids / Edie Marsh-Matthews, Raelynn Deaton, and Melody Brooks ; Molecular mechanisms of maternal/fetal nutrient transfer in viviparous poecilid fishes - a role for [beta]-catenin? / Alyce DeMarais ; Respiratory strategies in goodeid and jenynsiid embryos : morphologic correlates of cutaneous gas exchange / Joachim F. Schindler and Hartmut Greven
Genetics and ecology. Evolutionary diversification of mating signals in the Mexican sailfin mollies (Poeciliidae: Poecilia: Mollienesia) / Margaret B. Ptacek and Shala J. Hankison ; Competition for food between invasive and native viviparous fishes / Luis H. Escalera-Vázquez and Luis Zambrano ; Ecological speciation among blue holes in mosquitofish / R. Brian Langerhans, Matthew E. Gifford, and Everton O. Joseph ; The implications of variation in female preferences for swordtail fishes / Óscar Ríos-Cárdenas and Molly R. Morris ; Multiple visual cues, receiver psychology, and signal evolution in pygmy swordtails / Gil G. Rosenthal and Michael J. Ryan ; The intricate genetics of melanophore patterns in fishes of the genus Xiphophorus / Klaus D. Kallman and Salvador Contreras-Balderas ; Ecology of Cuban species of the family Poeciliidae (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) / José Luis Ponce de León and Rodet Rodríguez ; Genes to ecosystems : viviparous fishes and endocrine disruption / Thea M. Edwards, Taisen Iguchi, and Louis J. Guillette Jr
Conservation. Genetic strategies for captive breeding of viviparous fishes for conservation and other purposes : practicalities and limitations / David J. Price ; Current status of sperm cryopreservation in the genus Xiphophorus / Huiping Yang, Ronald B. Walter, and Terrence R. Tiersch ; Aquarists and scientists working together to save species from extinction / Ivan Dibble ; Production environment, anatomy, and diet for the crescent zoogy, Zoogeneticus tequila, (Goodeidae), suggestions before a reintroduction attempt is made / Arcadio Valdés Gonzalez, Sergio Alexandr Castillo Alvarado, and María Elena Ángeles Villeda ; Viviparous fish programs at Chester Zoo / Colin Grist ; Aquarists, from large projects to stable maintenance programs / Thue Grum-Schwensen
Posters / Emilio Martínez Ramírez [and others]
Proceedings of the III International Symposium on Viviparous Fishes, held in Morelia, Michoacán, México, Nov. 8-10, 2006