Table of Contents
Preface
Prologue
Robert B. Barlow
1. Synchronies in Migration: Shorebirds, Horseshoe Crabs, and Delaware Bay
Mark L. Botton and Brian A. Harrington, with Nellie Tsipoura and David Mizrahi
Research Note 1.1 Physiological Ecology of Shorebirds during Migration through the Delaware Bay Area
Research Note 1.2 The Importance of Weather Systems and Energy Reserves to Migrating Semipalmated Sandpipers
2. Nesting Behavior: A Shoreline Phenomenon
H. Jane Brockmann
Exhibit 2.1 Questions about Behavior
Exhibit 2.2 Decision Making in Animals
Exhibit 2.3 Studying Behavioral Adaptations
3. Male Competition and Satellite Behavior
H. Jane Brockmann
Exhibit 3.1 Language and Explanation in Behavior
Exhibit 3.2 The Process of Fertilization
Exhibit 3.3 Paternity Analysis in Horseshoe Crabs
4. Seeing at Night and Finding Mates: The Role of Vision
Robert B. Barlow and Maureen K. Powers
5. Growing Up Takes about Ten Years and Eighteen Stages
Carl N. Shuster, Jr., and Koichi Sekiguchi
Exhibit 5.1 Paths Taken: How the Authors Got Started
6. Horseshoe Crabs in a Food Web: Who Eats Whom?
Mark L. Botton and Carl N. Shuster, Jr., with John A. Keinath
Research Note 6.1 Predation of Horseshoe Crabs by Loggerhead Sea Turtles
7. A History of Skeletal Structure: Clues to Relationships among Species
Carl N. Shuster, Jr., and Lyall I. Anderson
Exhibit 7.1 Horseshoe Crab Look-Alikes
Exhibit 7.2 What AreHorseshoe Crabs?
8. Throughout Geologic Time: Where Have They Lived?
Lyall I. Anderson and Carl N. Shuster, Jr.
9. Coping with Environmental Changes: Physiological Challenges
David W. Towle and Raymond P. Henry
Exhibit 9.1 Cell Volume Regulation or Blood Ion Regulation?
Exhibit 9.2 Epithelial Cell Structure and Function
Exhibit 9.3 Hemocyanin, the Oxygen-Carrying Protein
Exhibit 9.4 Glossary of Terms
10. Diseases and Symbionts: Vulnerability Despite Tough Shells
Louis Leibovitz and Gregory A. Lewbart
Exhibit 10.1 Dr. Louis Leibovitz
Exhibit 10.2 How to Study a Disease
Exhibit 10.3 Pathological and Biological Terminology
Exhibit 10.4 A Key to the Identification of Diseases of Limulus
Exhibit 10.5 Maintaining Limulus in Captivity
11. A Blue Blood: The Circulatory System
Carl N. Shuster, Jr.
12. Internal Defense against Pathogenic Invasion: The Immune System
Peter B. Armstrong
Exhibit 12.1 Glossary
13. Clotting Cells and Limulus Amebocyte Lysate: An Amazing Analytical Tool
Jack Levin, H. Donald Hochstein, and Thomas J. Novitsky
14. King Crab Fertilizer: A Once-Thriving Delaware Bay Industry
Carl N. Shuster, Jr.
15. Horseshoe Crab Conservation: A Coast-Wide Management Plan
Carl N. Shuster, Jr., Mark L. Botton, and Robert E. Loveland
Authors and Contributors
References
Acknowledgments
Index