From owner-announce@net.bio.net Thu Jul 01 20:41:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Al Romero Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: Call for Papers. Hypogean Fishes Date: 1 Jul 1999 14:41:50 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 63 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: kristoff@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <4.1.19990701114601.009ee160@macalester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The Biology of Hypogean Fishes A CALL FOR PAPERS This is an invitation to submit one or more research papers on hypogean (cave, subterranean) fishes for a special volume on this topic to be published by Environmental Biology of Fishes in 2001. We also expect to reprint this special issue as a separate book. More than 60 researchers have already been invited to participate. The topics of the papers to be considered will be diverse in nature with evolution, ecology, behavior, and conservation as the prime issues. There will be two major types of articles: a) review articles; and, b) specific articles that report either or both, field and laboratory work whose results provide new insights on the role played by the environment on the biology of these fishes. Papers will be arranged under the following sections: I. General perspectives: Synthesis of general information, e.g., the world’s hypogean fishes, phenotypic convergences, distribution, the history of hypogean fish research, and the impact of cave fish research on evolutionary and ecological thought. II. Ecology: Ecological issues related to the hypogean environment and how they have influenced hypogean fish adaptations. III. Morphology: Major morphological adaptations related to the hypogean environment. IV. Behavior: Behavioral adaptations, particularly differences between hypogean fishes and their epigean ancestors (e.g., reproductive, agonistic and schooling behavior, circadian rhythmicity, aggressiveness, responses to light, etc.). V. Physiology: Ecophysiology of hypogean fishes. VI. Evolutionary perspectives: Field/laboratory data as well as more synthetic views on issues such as colonization, genetic and phenotypic correlations, interactions between morphological and behavioral changes, evolutionary rates, gene flow, etc. VII. Hypogean fishes environment and conservation: Current status of hypogean fish conservation. Management tools. The deadline for manuscript submission is February 29, 2000. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts. If you have any questions or wish to receive a copy of the Instructions to Authors, please do not hesitate to contact me. I encourage the use of electronic mail. Sincerely, Aldemaro Romero, Ph.D. Environmental Studies Program and Department of Biology Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105-1899, USA.Telephone: (651) 696-8157, Fax: (651) 696-6443, E-mail: romero@macalester.edu .