Annual Fishes Life History Strategy, Diversity, and Evolution

About this book

Annual fishes inhabit isolated bodies of freshwater in Africa and South America that dry up seasonally. They provide a unique opportunity to serve as a model organism for studies in vertebrate biology, such as behavior, sexual selection, molecular evolution, evolution of morphological traits, speciation, population dynamics, competition, reproductive strategies, regulation of developmental mechanisms, evo-devo studies and senescence. Currently, no single book reviews the status of our knowledge of annual fishes. Annual Fishes fills that void, covering the life cycle of annual fishes, their reproductive and evolutionary biology, ecology, reproductive behavior and sexual selection.

Contents

- Preface
- Life Cycle, Reproduction and Development in Annual Fishes: Cellular and Molecular Aspects
- Alternative Developmental Pathways in Annual Fishes
- Sex Determination and Differentiation in Annual Fishes
- Sperm Ultrastructure in Species of the Austrolebias Genus
- Ecology (or Evolutionary Ecology) of African Annual Fishes
- Aging Phenotypes and the Use of Nothobranchius as an Experimental Model
- Anatomical Features and Proliferative Zones of Adult Austrolebias Brain
- Annual Fishes in the Field: Scaling From Ponds to Geographic Regions
- Diversity of Annual Fishes
- Reproductive Behavior and Sexual Selection in Annual Fishes
- the Genome of the Annual Fishes Austrolebias Dynamized by Transposable Elements
- Chromosome Evolution and Speciation in the Family Rivulidae: a Phylogeographic Context
- Different Meiotic Patterns in Austrolebias Species Complex and Intrinsic Postzygotic Isolation Mechanisms
- Genomic Isolated Region: Linkage Groups in Parental and Laboratory Hybrids Between Ausrolebias adloffi Species Complex
- Parallel Evolution in New and Old World Aplocheloids
- General Conclusions

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Biography

Nibia Berois is a professor of cell biology and developmental biology at the Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, where she earned her PhD in biology. She is a Grade 4 researcher at Programa de Desarrollo de Ciencias Básicas (PEDECIBA) and Level 2 researcher at Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI). Her research focuses on the biology of reproduction and development, with emphasis on neotropical annual fishes. She is the author of more than 40 scientific papers in her research area.

Graciela García is a professor of genetics at the Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, where she also earned her PhD in biology. She is a Grade 4 research at PEDECIBA and Level 2 researcher at the SNI. She is the author of more than 40 scientific papers, mainly concerning neotropical annual fishes. She is, in general, an animal geneticist with special interests in the population genetics and evolution of fishes, phylogeography, and speciation in different fish models.

Rafael O. de Sá is a professor of biology at the University of Richmond, Virginia. He earned his PhD in zoology from the University of Texas at Austin. He held a Fulbright Scholar Distinguished chair at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, from 2013-2014. He is a Grade 4 researcher at PEDECIBA and an associate researcher at the SNI. His general training has been as an evolutionary biologist with expertise in molecular and morphological phylogenies, systematics, and taxonomy. He is the author of over 100 papers.