While advances in marine biotechnology will certainly enhance our capabilities in the marine realm, what we learn there will doubtless provide new insight into the biology of freshwater and terrestrial organisms. This volume is a compilation of information that covers a wide range of animal groups. This book will be of interest not only to biotechnologists but also to aquaculturists, comparative animal physiologists, comparative endocrinologists, and developmental biologists.

Chemicals Cues in Larval Polychaete Settlement; Chemical Induction of Settlement and Metamorphosis of the Red Abalone; Biotechnology of Obtaining the Sex Cells and Spat in of Marine Bivalve Molluscs and Echinoderms; Serotonin Action on Spisula Gametes; Neuroendocrine Control of Growth, Reproduction, and Carbohydrate Metabolism in Molluscs; Biotechnological Aspects of the Settlement and Metamorphosis of Concholepas Larvae; Hormonal Regulation of Growth and Reproduction in Crustaceans; Chemistry of Crustacean Hormones that Regulate Growth and Reproduction; Roles of Neurotransmitters and Neuroregulators in Controlling the Release of the Growth and Reproductive Hormones in Crustacea; Vitellogenin Synthesis in Marine Invertebrates; Establishment of Dynein Motor Superfamily; Induction of Settlement and Metamorphosis in Echnioderms; Cellular Differentiation in Early Development of Starfish; Recent Advances in Transgenic Fish Technology; Use of LHRH Analogues in Fish Culture; Development and Recent Trends in Chromosomal Manipulations of Fish; Transgenic Fish; Fish Pituitary Hormones and their Genes; Fish Sex Pheromones; Expression of Rainbow Trout Estrogen Receptor in Escherichia coli and yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Role of Hatching Enzyme and its Gene Expression during Development in Teleosts; Quantitative Evaluation of Coatings for Antifouling and Foul-release Properties