Ecology and Morphology of Copepods is organized under the following general topics: Behavior, Feeding, Genetics, Horizontal Variations, Morphology, Phylogeny, Reproduction, Seasonal Changes, Vertical Distribution, plus two special sessions on copepods of the genus Acartia and cyclopid/mosquito interactions. The Maxilliped Lecture, given by Dr. Arthur G. Humes of Boston University, clearly established the importance of copepods to the earth's organic diversity. The book consists of selected research articles from the different sections. The articles published here reflect the diverse research interests of copepodologists today, and are distinguished by their high quality. Their impact will ensure that this volume is consulted by a wide range of research biologists.

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Maxilliped lecture.- How many copepods?.- Systematics.- Acartia tonsa: a species new for the Black Sea fauna.- A new species of Erebonectes (Copepoda, Calanoida) from marine caves on Caicos Islands, West Indies.- Nomenclature, redescription, and new record from Okinawa of Cymbasoma morii Sekiguchi, 1982 (Monstrilloida).- Copepod phylogeny: a reconsideration of Huys & Boxshall's 'parsimony versus homology'.- Mesocyclops thermocyclopoides species-group: redefinition and content.- Variation in the species of freshwater harpacticoid copepods in Japan. II. Attheyella nakaii (Brehm).- Glaciella, a new genus of freshwater Canthocamptidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from a glacier in Nepal, Himalayas.- Descriptions of Acartia (Euacartia) southwelli Sewell 1914 and Acartia (Euacartia) sarojus n.sp. from India and status of the subgenus Euacartia Steuer 1923.- Morphometric study of Calanus chilensis males along the Chilean coast.- Boeckella diamantina n.sp. (Callanoida, Centropagidae), from a high Andean lake in Mendoza, Argentina.- Haplostomides hawaiiensis, new species (Copepoda: Cyclopoida: Ascidicolidae), associated with the ascidian Polyclinum constellatum at Honolulu, Hawaii.- Tropodiaptomus zambeziensis, T. bhangazii and T. capriviensis, three new species of Tropodiaptomus (Copepoda, Calanoida) from southern Africa.- Troglocyclops janstocki, new genus, new species, a very primitive cyclopid (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) from an anchialine cave in the Bahamas.- Senecella siberica n.sp. and the position of the genus Senecella in Calanoida classification.- A clarification of two congeners, Pseudodiaptomus lobipes and P. binghami (Calanoida, Pseudodiaptomidae) from India, with description of P. mixtus sp.n. from Bangladesh.- Morphology.- Morphological aspects of subitaneous and resting eggs from Acartia josephinae (Calanoida).- The integumental ultrastructure of Parathalestris harpactoides (Claus, 1863) (copepoda, harpacticoida).- Importance of the genital operculum in the taxonomy of South American Diaptomidae (Copepoda, Calanoida).- Morphological variability of geographically distinct populations of the estuarine copepod Acartia Tonsa.- Speculations on enigmatic structures in relation to associated copepod phylogeny.- Copepodid stages of Conchyliurus quintus Tanaka, 1961 (Poecilostomatoida, Clausidiidae) associated with bivalve mollusks.- External morphology of the male and female of Sphyrion lumpi (Krøyer, 1845) (Copepoda; Siphonostomatoida; Sphyriidae).- Variability of Acartia clausi in the Black Sea.- Feeding and reproduction.- Induction of diapause egg production in Eurytemora affinis by their own metabolites.- Seasonal feeding and fecundity of the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa in Long Island Sound: is omnivory important to egg production?.- Physiological characteristics of the antarctic copepod Calanoides acutus during late summer in the Weddell Sea.- Diapause dynamics of two diaptomid copepod species in a large lake.- Reproduction of the calanoid copepod Calanus propinquus in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica: observations in laboratory.- Reproductive behaviour in the harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus fulvus.- Ingestion of the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium spp. by pelagic harpacticoid copepods Macrosetella, Miracia and Oculosetella.- Gut fluorescence in herbivorous copepods: an attempt to justify the method.- Copepod grazing in a summer cyanobacteria bloom in the Gulf of Finland.- Surface glycoproteins in copepods: potential signals for mate recognition.- Distributions in time and space.- Labidocera aestiva and L. scotti in Tamiahua Lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico.- The microcopepod fauna in the Eastern Mediterranean and Arabian Seas: a comparison with the Red Sea Fauna.- Seasonal variations in carbon and nitrogen content of Acartia clausi (Copepoda, Calanoida) in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea).- Life cycle of Calanus chilensis Brodsky in Bay of San Jorge, Antofagasta, Chile.- Copepod nauplii from the barrier reef of Belize.- Seasonal succession of Copepoda in the Bahia Blanca estuary.- Spermatophore transfer in Euchaeta species in a 2000 m water column.- Geographic distribution of the bathypelagic genus paraeuchaeta (Coepoda, Calanoida).- Diel changes in copepod respiration rates.- Latitudinal diversity patterns of continental benthic copepod species assemblages in the Americas.- A calanoid copepod Gladioferens imparipes, holding to surfaces.- Autecology of an intertidal Alaskan harpacticoid copepod Apolethon sp..- Diversity and structure of pelagic copepod populations in the frontal zone of the eastern Alboran Sea.- Freshwater littoral copepods of British Columbia and Alberta (Canada).- Diel vertical migration and gut pigment rhythm of Paracalanus parvus, P. crassirostris, Acartia erythraea and Eucalanus subcrassus (Copepoda, Calanoida) in Tolo harbour, Hong Kong.- Seasonal variability in the individual carbon content of the calanoid copepod Acartia bflosa from the northern Baltic Sea.- Planktonic copepods of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay and Cape Cod Bay, 1992.- Seasonal dynamics of Acartia bifilosa and Eurytemora affinis (Coepoda: Calanoida) in relation to abiotic factors in the northern Baltic Sea.- Life history traits of the tropical freshwater copepod Mesocyclops longisetus (Crustacea: Copepoda).- Species assemblages of cyclopoid Copepoda from Mantecal, Venezuela.- Environmental relationships.- Trophic roles of particle feeders and -detritus in a mangrove island prop root ecosystem.- Factors affecting feeding selectivity of visual predators on the copepod Acartia tonsa: locomotion, visibility and escape responses.- Commensal life, sexual dimorphism, and handedness in the canuellid harpacticoid Parasunaristes chelicerata (Por & Marcus, 1972).- Salinity stress proteins in Eurytemora affinis.- Development of Acartia clausi (Copepoda, Calanoida) cultured at different conditions of temperature and food.- Coexistence and competition within Acartia (Copepoda, Calanoida) congeners from Lebanese coastal water: nice overlap measurements.- Use of cyclopoid copepods for mosquito control.- Effects of impounding coastal salt marsh for mosquito control on microcrustacean populations.- Sublethal effects of cupric ion activity on the phototaxis of three calanoid copepods.- Replacement of large copepods by small ones with eutrophication of embayments: cause and consequence.- The role of copepods in the planktonic ecosystems of mixed and stratified waters of the European shelf seas.