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Book SynopsisOar Feet and Opal Teeth is about free-living copepods and the copepodologists who study them. Copepods are a subclass of the arthropod class Crustacea. They act as dominant herbivores and small predators in the planktonic ecosystems of oceans, estuaries, and lakes. Copepods are likely the largest assemblage of complex animals on earth. These strikingly beautiful small crustaceans are of wide ecological significance and as complex and precisely adapted as insects. Yet few biologists and others interested in animals are familiar with them. In Oar Feet and Opal Teeth, Charles B. Miller introduces these small crustaceans and the scientists devoting their careers to revealing their biology. In twenty-one chapters, Miller details the defining features and general biology of copepods. They typically have four or five pairs of oar-like feet to drive escape jumps. Teeth on mandible extensions are formed with siliceous minerals akin to opal. The first two chapters of the book closely examine the
Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Planktonic Copepods Have Those Oar Feet Biographical Sketch: Russ Hopcroft Chapter 2. The Front End: Sensory Systems, Feeding Limbs, Opal Teeth Biographical Sketch: Barbara Sullivan Chapter 3. Let's Go Inside Biographical Sketches: Esther Lowe and Tai Soo Park Chapter 4. Alpha Taxonomy I Biographical Sketch: Bruce Frost Chapter 5. Alpha Taxonomy II Biographical Sketches: Janet Bradford-Grieve and Taisoo Park (again) Chapter 6. Feeding I: Various Modes Biographical Sketch: Jeannette Yen Chapter 7. Feeding II: More about Eating Biographical Sketch: Rudi Stricker Chapter 8. Not Being Eaten I: Diel Vertical Migration Biographical Sketches: Mark Ohman and Steve Bollens Chapter 9. Not Being Eaten II: More Strategies Chapter 10. Meeting and Mating: Sex in Wide-Open Water Biographical Sketches: Atsushi Tsuda and Jeanette Yen (again) Chapter 11. Reproduction, Free vs. Sac-Spawners Biographical Sketches: Jeffery Runge, Barbara Niehoff, Thomas Kiørboe, and Marina Sabatini Chapter 12. Development Biographical Sketch: Catherine Johnson Chapter 13. Sex Determination in Copepods Biographical Sketches: Roger Harris, Xabier Irigoien, and Tran The Do Chapter 14. Chromatin Diminution: Marvelous Mitoses Biographical Sketch: Grace Wyngaard Chapter 15. Copepodite Diapause: Atlantic Biographical Sketches: Sheina Marshall, A.P. Orr, Mark Baumgartner, and Ann Tarrant Chapter 16. Copepodite Diapause: Pacific and Indian Biographical Sketch: Sharon Smith Chapter 17. Egg Diapause Biographical Sketches: Edward Zillioux and J. Kenneth Johnson Chapter 18. Molecular Genetics Applied to Copepods Biographical Sketch: Ann Bucklin Chapter 19. Beta Taxonomy I: Copepod Sprigs on the Tree of Life Biographical Sketches: Abraham Fleminger and Erica Goetze Chapter 20. Beta Taxonomy II: Copepods in the Stream of Time Biographical Sketches: Geoffrey Boxshall and Rony Huys Chapter 21. Copepod Phylogenies from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences Biographical Sketch: Diego Figueroa Index
