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The American horseshoe crab

Title
The American horseshoe crab / edited by Carl N. Shuster, Jr., Robert B. Barlow, H. Jane Brockmann.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Shuster, Carl N. (Carl Nathaniel), 1919-
  • Barlow, Robert B.
  • Brockmann, H. Jane.
Description
x, 427 p., 32 p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-417) and index.
Contents
Prologue / Robert B. Barlow -- Synchronies in migration : shorebirds, horseshoe crabs, and Delaware Bay / Mark L. Botton and Brian A. Harrington; with Nellie Tsipoura and David Mizrahi -- Nesting behavior : a shoreline phenomenon / H. Jane Brockmann -- Male competition and satellite behavior / H. Jane Brockmann -- Seeing at night and finding mates : the role of vision / Robert B. Barlow and Maureen K. Powers -- Growing up takes about ten years and eighteen stages / Carl N. Shuster, Jr., and Koichi Sekiguchi -- Horseshoe crabs in a food web : who eats whom? / Mark L. Botton and Carl N. Shuster, Jr.; with John A. Keinath -- A history of skeletal structure : clues to relationships among species / Carl N. Shuster, Jr., and Lyall I. Anderson -- Throughout geologic time : where have they lived? / Lyall I. Anderson and Carl N. Shuster, Jr. -- Coping with environmental changes : physiological challenges / David W. Towle and Raymond P. Henry -- Diseases and symbionts : vulnerability despite tough shells / Louis Leibovitz and Gregory A. Lewbart -- A blue blood : the circulatory system / Carl N. Shuster, Jr. -- Internal defense against pathogenic invasion : the immune system / Peter B. Armstrong -- Clotting cells and Limulus amebocyte lysate : an amazing analytical tool / Jack Levin, H. Donald Hochstein and Thomas J. Novitsky -- King crab fertilizer : a once-thriving Delaware Bay industry / Carl N. Shuster, Jr. -- Horseshoe crab conservation : a coast-wide management plan / Carl N. Shuster, Jr., Mark L. Botton and Robert E. Loveland.
ISBN
0674011597 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2003056640
OCLC
  • ocm52602812
  • SCSB-1359683
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library