An annual life cycle is characterized by growth, maturity, and reproduction condensed into a
single, short season favourable to development, with production of embryos (seeds, cysts, or …

Matrotrophy, the continuous extra‐vitelline supply of nutrients from the parent to the progeny
during gestation, is one of the masterpieces of nature, contributing to offspring fitness and …

Behavioral individuality is a ubiquitous phenomenon in animal populations, yet the origins
and developmental trajectories of individuality, especially very early in life, are still a black …

Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes is the first integrated review of the reproductive
biology of the bony fishes, which are the most species-rich and diversified group of …

Several attributes intuitively considered to be typical mammalian features, such as complex
behavior, live birth and malignant disease such as cancer, also appeared several times …

The evolution of the placenta from a non-placental ancestor causes a shift of maternal
investment from pre-to post-fertilization, creating a venue for parent–offspring conflicts …

The ecological and life history drivers of the diversification of reproductive modes in early
vertebrates are not fully understood. Sharks, rays and chimaeras (group Chondrichthyes) …

Many fields of biology—including vertebrate Evo‐Devo research—are facing an explosion of
genomic and transcriptomic sequence information and a multitude of fish species are now …

The fish subfamily Poeciliinae (sensu Parenti, 1981) is widely distributed across the Western
Hemisphere and a dominant component of the fish communities of Central America …

Why can we sometimes successfully distinguish males from females at a glance, even in a
species we have never seen before (Fig. 6.1)? One answer is that we make an often …