Biology of Anomura II

Biology of Anomura II ­– Proceedings of the Symposium organized by Rafael Lemaitre and Christopher Tudge, Sixth International Crustacean Congress, Glasgow, Scotland.
Crustacean Research, Special Number 6 , Carcinological Society of Japan
Editor: Akira Asakura, Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba
October 2006, 199 pp., hardcover, ISSN 0287-3478
Price: JPY 3,000 (= US$ 30).

The content, application and rationale behind this volume are best described with a few words from the preface by C. Tudge and R. Lemaitre: "After the success of the first “Biology of the Anomura” symposium at the Fifth International Crustacean Congress (ICC5) in Melbourne, Australia in 2001, it seemed natural that a second symposium devoted to the Anomura should follow. This was done during ICC6, 18-22 July 2005, in Glasgow, Scotland, UK., entitled: The “Biology of the Anomura II”. This special volume of Crustacean Research is dedicated to various papers presented during the ICC6 symposium. This volume contains 16 papers from 33 authors representing nine countries, and covers most of the fields and groups being researched by anomuran co-workers worldwide. Not all those colleagues who attended the symposium submitted manuscripts for this volume, while others who could not attend ICC6 did submit papers. The enthusiastic international participation in the symposium, the diversity of topics and taxa covered, and the high quality of research papers are all firm indicators of the worldwide interest in the field of anomuran systematics and biology. With  pleasure we have served as coordinators of these symposia, and find great satisfaction in seeing that our work has served as a catalyst to bring together anomuran biologists and share our common research interests".

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Akira Asakura
E-mail: asakura@chiba-muse.or.jp
Senior Researcher, Crustacea, Zoology Department
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba
955-2, Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba, 260-8682  JAPAN
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