Histology of Fishes

Frank Kirschbaum is a retired Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cologne in 1972. As postdoc he worked in Gif sur Yvette (France) performing studies on the reproduction and ontogeny of weakly electric fishes. Back in Cologne he did his Habilitation in 1984. The next steps were the Free University and then the Humboldt University in Berlin where he became Head of the Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes and at the same time he led the Department Biology and Ecology of Fishes at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries. Teaching activities comprised fish biology, tropical fish communities, fish systematics, and histology. Krzysztof Formicki received his MSc (1981) and PhD (1984) at the University of Agriculture, Szczecin, Poland. Subsequently he has been engaged as a lecturer and researcher. He received his Habilitation in 1991. He has been a Professor since 1993 and Head of the Department at West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland since 2000. He was also a Dean and Vice-Rector of the University. He has had research stays in USA (University of California) and Japan.

This multiauthor volume edited by Kirschbaum (emer., Humboldt Univ.) and Formicki (West Pomeranian Univ. of Technology, Szczecin) comprises an eighteen-chapter monograph on the microscopic anatomy of fish, with chapters dedicated to the history of histology, histological techniques, and the histology of major fish systems (muscular, digestive, reproductive, etc.). Also included are three indexes sorted by fish family names, English (common) names, and species names. Each chapter, contributed by a unique grouping of authors, includes black-and-white plates representing tissues for each fish system covered. Two chapters are authored by Kirschbaum alone, notably the chapter on the electric organs. The writing is concise and consistently technical. An appendix of high-resolution color plates is also included. Owing to the very technical nature of the text, this volume is most suitable for researchers and fisheries scientists with an active interest in fish histology and histological techniques. It would also serve as an excellent resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who will be involved in performing fish histology work and other fish research.--K. R. Thompson, Missouri State University, Choice, 2020 Vol. 58 No. 2

• Introduction to Histological TechniquesAnna Pecio and Rafal P. PiprekIntegumentFrank Kirschbaum and Shaun P. CollinFish Skeletal TissuesFrançois J. Meunier Muscular SystemWincenty Kilarski Structure and Function of Electric OrgansFrank KirschbaumDigestive SystemOstaszewska Teresa and Kamaszewski Maciej Glands of the Digestive TractBogdana Wilczyńska and Katarzyna WołczukSwim BladderOstaszewska Teresa and Kamaszewski MaciejKidneyFrank Kirschbaum Ovaries and Eggs Mari Carmen Uribe, Harry J. Grier and Arlette Amalia Hernández FranyuttiEgg EnvelopesKrzysztof Formicki and Agata Korzelecka-OrkiszTestis Structure, Spermatogenesis, and Spermatozoa in Teleost FishesAnna Pecio Cardiovascular System and BloodJosé M. Icardo Immune System of FishTeresa Wlasow and Małgorzata JankunGills: Respiration and Ionic-OsmoregulationMarisa Narciso FernandesSensory OrgansJacqueline F. Webb, Shaun P. Collin, Michał Kuciel, Tanja Schulz-Mirbach, Krystyna Żuwała, Jean-Pierre Denizot and Frank KirschbaumMorphology and Ecomorphology of the Fish Brain: The Rhombencephalon of ActinopterygiansAnastasia S. Kharlamova and Sergei V. Saveliev Endocrine SystemWerner Kloas and Frank Kirschbaum