Early Life History of Marine Fishes

"With the extensive emergence of evolutionary developmental biology as a major discipline in modern life sciences, and the resurgence of ontogeny of fishes as an indispensible component in our efforts to understand the life of fishes, the publication of this outstanding book is not only timely but essential. Miller and Kendall have provided us with a comprehensive, in-depth, authoritative synthesis of the early stages of fishes. We benefit from the enormous wealth of knowledge and incomparable insights acquired by the two world renowned fish developmental biologists over their long research careers. This book offers the best modern synthesis on fish development and will greatly benefit reproductive biologists, ecologists, evolutionary and fishery biologists. The authors offer unique and original notions on functional morphology of larvae and larval features that play a key role during the evolution of fishes, the different patterns of larval and embryonic differentiation, and the complexities and their underlying causation of population dynamics. It is an original, superb synthesis that deserves to adorn bookshelves of countless biologists in the world."—Karel F. Liem, Harvard University

"Early Life History of Marine Fishes brings together in one book a useful summary of fish reproduction and the development, ecology, and dynamics of early life history stages. With additional chapters on identification, systematic field sampling, and culturing techniques, this book covers a lot of territory."—Lee A. Fuiman, Director, Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin