This book is intended as a textbook for veterinary students as well as practitioners in small animal practice or laboratory animal care facilities. There are 31 chapters dealing with the restraint, blood collection, injection techniques, placement and care of intravenous catheters, fine needle aspir...

An introduction to vertebrate functional morphology / Pieter Dullemeijer -- The cartilaginous skeleton of the sea lamprey: a family of non-collagen-based cartilages / Glenda M. Wright and Fred W. Keeley -- Evolutionary transformations of the respiratory islets of air-breathing organs in teleostean f...

Sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis, Kroyer) are a major pathogen of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). To obtain a better understanding of the host-parasite relationship, we compared protease secretions of L. salmonis into mucus collected from susceptible hosts (Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout, ...