By Robin N. Gibson, Richard D.M. Nash, Audrey J. Geffen, Henk W. Van der Veer
Fascinating and immediately recognizable, flatfishes are distinct of their uneven postlarval physique shape. With over 800 extant species famous and a distribution stretching all over the world, those fishes are of substantial examine curiosity and supply a big contribution to advertisement and leisure fisheries all over the world. This moment variation of Flatfishes: Biology and Exploitation has been thoroughly revised, up-to-date and enlarged to answer the ever-growing physique of study. It offers: * Overviews of systematics, distribution, existence historical past innovations, copy, recruitment, ecology and behavior * Descriptions of the most important fisheries and their administration * An evaluate of the synergies among ecological and aquaculture examine of flatfishes. rigorously compiled and edited via 4 internationally-known scientists and with chapters written by way of many global leaders within the box, this glorious re-creation of a really well known and winning booklet is key interpreting for fish biologists, fisheries scientists, marine biologists, aquaculture body of workers, ecologists, environmental scientists, and govt staff in fisheries and fish and natural world departments. Flatfishes: Biology and Exploitation, moment variation, can be present in all libraries of study institutions and universities the place lifestyles sciences, fish biology, fisheries, aquaculture, marine sciences, oceanography, ecology and environmental sciences are studied and taught.
Reviews of the 1st variation * a fantastic, updated e-book that complex scholars and learn scientists with pursuits in fish biology will locate attention-grabbing and invaluable. Aquaculture overseas * A data-rich e-book that outlines a lot of what you could ever need to know approximately flatfishes. Fish & Fisheries * good offered with transparent illustrations and a precious resource of data for people with a normal curiosity in fish ecology or for the extra expert reader. you'll want to ensure that your library has a duplicate. J Fish Biology * an outstanding and intensely functional evaluation of the entire, international flatfish scene. somebody attracted to flatfish at whichever level of the industrial meals chain should still put money into a replica instantly. Ausmarine * end result of the top of the range of every bankruptcy, written through foreign specialists, it's a worthwhile reference. reports in Fish Biology and Fisheries
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The metamorphosis of flatfishes is characterized by the migration of one eye to the opposite side of the head and by subsequent pigmentation of the ocular side only. Chapter 7 describes the systems involved in the development and regulation of these external asymmetries and how they may have evolved. An important finding related to eye-sidedness is that the Nodal pathway, which is known to control laterality of internal organs, fixes eye-sidedness through a series of novel mechanisms. Regarding pigmentation, latent precursors that give rise to the adult-type chromatophores that confer colour to the ocular side are localized along the base of the dorsal and anal fins until metamorphosis.
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Et al. 2013a). However, other molecular studies incorporating different sequence data do not recover the Pleuronectiformes as a monophyletic group (Smith & Wheeler 2006; Near et al. 2012; Betancur-R. et al. 2013b). In these studies, Psettodes does not group with the remaining Pleuronectiformes; however, the remaining flatfishes, exclusive of Psettodes, do form a monophyletic clade. Dramatic anatomical specializations associated with lateral asymmetry found in the Pleuronectiformes challenge systematists attempting to find interrelationships between this group and other extant fish taxa.