Annual Fishes ─ Life History Strategy, Diversity, and Evolution

Annual fishes provide a unique opportunity to serve as a model organism for studies in vertebrate biology, such as behavior, sexual selection, molecular evolution, evolution of morphological traits, speciation, population dynamics, competition, reproductive strategies, regulation of developmental mechanisms, evo-devo studies and senescence. Currently, no single book reviews the status of our knowledge of annual fishes. This book fills that void, covering the life cycle of annual fishes, their reproductive and evolutionary biology, ecology, reproductive behavior and sexual selection.

Nibia Berois is a professor of cell biology and developmental biology at the Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, where she earned her PhD in biology. She is a Grade 4 researcher at Programa de Desarrollo de Ciencias Basicas (PEDECIBA) and Level 2 researcher at Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI). Her research focuses on the biology of reproduction and development, with emphasis on neotropical annual fishes. She is the author of more than 40 scientific papers in her research area.

Graciela Garcia is a professor of genetics at the Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, where she also earned her PhD in biology. She is a Grade 4 research at PEDECIBA and Level 2 researcher at the SNI. She is the author of more than 40 scientific papers, mainly concerning neotropical annual fishes. She is, in general, an animal geneticist with special interests in the population genetics and evolution of fishes, phylogeography, and speciation in different fish models.

Rafael O. de Sa is a professor of biology at the University of Richmond, Virginia. He earned his PhD in zoology from the University of Texas at Austin. He held a Fulbright Scholar Distinguished chair at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 2013-2014. He is a Grade 4 researcher at PEDECIBA and an associate researcher at the SNI. His general training has been as an evolutionary biologist with expertise in molecular and morphological phylogenies, systematics, and taxonomy. He is the author of over 100 papers.