Animal reproduction : new research developments
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Animal reproduction : new research developments
Nova Science, c2009
- : hard
Available at 4 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Reproduction is the biological process by which new individual organisms are produced. Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life; each individual organism exists as the result of reproduction. The known methods of reproduction are broadly grouped into two main types: sexual and asexual. In asexual reproduction, an individual can reproduce without involvement with another individual of that species. The division of a bacterial cell into two daughter cells is an example of asexual reproduction. Asexual reproduction is not, however, limited to single-celled organisms. Most plants have the ability to reproduce asexually. Sexual reproduction requires the involvement of two individuals, typically one of each sex. Normal human reproduction is a common example of sexual reproduction. Most animals and plants reproduce sexually. Sexually reproducing organisms have two sets of genes for every trait (called alleles). Offspring inherit one allele for each trait from each parent, thereby ensuring that offspring have a combination of the parents' genes. Having two copies of every gene, only one of which is expressed, allows deleterious alleles to be masked, an advantage believed to have led to the evolutionary development of diploidy. This book presents the latest research in the field from around the globe.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals on the Animal Reproduction
- Bovine Perinatology: Current Understanding and Future Developments
- Ultrastructural Details of Ovarian Follicles and Yolk Accumulation in Caeciilian Oocytes
- Progress in Research and Application of Gonadotropin-Releasiong Hormone(GnRH) in Animal Reproduction
- Phylogenetic Analysis of Sperm Storage in Female Squamates
- Mapping Alkali-Labile Sites in Mammalian Spermatozoa
- The Use of Reproductive Technologies in the Conservation of the Spanish Ibex (Capra Pyrenaica): A Model for ex situ Conservation of other Threatened Wild Ruminants
- Reproduction Research of Yangtze Finless Porpoise (Neophocaena Phocaenoides Asiaeorientalis)
- Growth and Fecundity of Earthworms (Oligochaeta): Perionyx Excavatus and Perionyx Sansibaricus in Cattle Waste Solid
- Asynchronous Oviductal Seasonal Variation in the Unisexual-Bisexual Nactus Multicarinatus Complex from the Vanuatu Archipelago
- Alexander Disease: Atypical Findings of Disease Spectrum
- Spermatozoan Structure in the Ghost Crab Ocypode Quadrata (Fabricius, 1787) (Crustacea, Ocypodidae) and Comments on Other Ocypodid Spermatozoan
- State-of-the-art of the Superstimulatory Treatments Utilized in Bovine Embryo Transfer Protocols and Future Perspectives for New Improvements
- Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer with HDACi as a New Cloning Method
- Index.
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