- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Cover Art Work
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Fish Reproduction -
Chapter 2 Development of Eggs and Larvae -
Chapter 3 Fish Egg and Larval Identification and Systematics -
Chapter 4 Ecology of Fish Eggs and Larvae -
Chapter 5 Sampling Fish Eggs and Larvae -
Chapter 6 Population Dynamics and Recruitment -
Chapter 7 Habitat, Water Quality, and Conservation Biology -
Chapter 8 Rearing and Culture of Marine Fishes -
LABORATORY EXERCISE ONE Ova Measurement to Determine Number of Spawnings and Introduction to Writing a Scientific Paper -
Laboratory Exercise Two Use of Histology to Determine if Multiple Spawnings are Occurring -
Laboratory Exercise Three Fecundity Determination -
Laboratory Exercise Four Artificially Spawning, Fertilizing, and Rearing Planktonic Fish Eggs -
Laboratory Exercise Five Culturing Marine Fish Larvae -
Laboratory Exercise Six Conducting Ichthyoplankton Tows -
Laboratory Exercise Seven Sorting and Identifying Fish Eggs and Larvae in Ichthyoplankton Samples -
Laboratory Exercise Eight Diversity/Identification of Planktonic Fish Eggs and Larvae -
Laboratory Exercise Nine Preparing and Examining Larval Fish Otoliths for Daily Growth -
Laboratory Exercise Ten Larval Fish Gut Contents -
Laboratory Exercise Eleven Histological Condition Index -
Laboratory Exercise Twelve Clearing and Staining Larval Fish - Glossary
- Literature Cited
- Taxonomical Index
- General Index
Development of Eggs and Larvae
Development of Eggs and Larvae
- Chapter:
- (p.38) (p.39) Chapter 2 Development of Eggs and Larvae
- Source:
- Early Life History of Marine Fishes
- Author(s):
Bruce S. Miller
Arthur W. Kendall
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter summarizes information on the development of fish eggs and larvae, and introduces juvenile development. The chapter focuses on the changes that occur as the eggs develop, hatch into larvae, and finally transform into juveniles (ontogeny). Most fishes have indirect development; that is, as free-living organisms they go through a number of distinct stages or phases of development (egg, larva, juvenile). This is similar to development in amphibians, but opposed to direct development seen in reptiles, birds, and mammals in which all the free-living forms appear similar and development is largely adding size to the organism. The specific topics covered by this chapter include events that take place immediately after spawning (fertilization and activation), the perivitelline space, rate of development and aging of fish eggs, hatching, notochord and stages of larval development and the transformation stage.
Keywords: fishes, larval fish, developmental stages, life cycle, early life stages, spawning, fertilization
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Cover Art Work
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Fish Reproduction -
Chapter 2 Development of Eggs and Larvae -
Chapter 3 Fish Egg and Larval Identification and Systematics -
Chapter 4 Ecology of Fish Eggs and Larvae -
Chapter 5 Sampling Fish Eggs and Larvae -
Chapter 6 Population Dynamics and Recruitment -
Chapter 7 Habitat, Water Quality, and Conservation Biology -
Chapter 8 Rearing and Culture of Marine Fishes -
LABORATORY EXERCISE ONE Ova Measurement to Determine Number of Spawnings and Introduction to Writing a Scientific Paper -
Laboratory Exercise Two Use of Histology to Determine if Multiple Spawnings are Occurring -
Laboratory Exercise Three Fecundity Determination -
Laboratory Exercise Four Artificially Spawning, Fertilizing, and Rearing Planktonic Fish Eggs -
Laboratory Exercise Five Culturing Marine Fish Larvae -
Laboratory Exercise Six Conducting Ichthyoplankton Tows -
Laboratory Exercise Seven Sorting and Identifying Fish Eggs and Larvae in Ichthyoplankton Samples -
Laboratory Exercise Eight Diversity/Identification of Planktonic Fish Eggs and Larvae -
Laboratory Exercise Nine Preparing and Examining Larval Fish Otoliths for Daily Growth -
Laboratory Exercise Ten Larval Fish Gut Contents -
Laboratory Exercise Eleven Histological Condition Index -
Laboratory Exercise Twelve Clearing and Staining Larval Fish - Glossary
- Literature Cited
- Taxonomical Index
- General Index
