Edited by Th. J. Abatzopoulos, J. A. Beardmore, J. S. Clegg and P. Sorgeloos Kluwer Academic Publishers (2002) pp. 286. ISBN 1402007469 (hbk) $113 (hbk)
The power of brine shrimp (Artemia sp.) to survive and even thrive in forbidding environments has long been of interest to biologists. The first scientific reference was in 1756 by L. Schlösser, to a now-extinct population found in the saltpans of Lymington, UK. In the mid-1930s, the value of Artemia as a commercial source of fish feed was realized, and by the 1950s research began in earnest on the organism's biochemistry, physiology and development. Over the past 15 years, molecular data and gene expression have begun to receive increasing attention. A welcome addition to collections of research released over the decades is the inaugural volume in the `Biology of Aquatic Organisms' series from Kluwer Academic, entitled Artemia: Basic and Applied Biology.
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