Flatfish Metamorphosis

Baolong BAO obtained his B.Sc. (Agr) from Zhejiang Ocean University, M.Sc. (Agr.) from Shanghai Ocean University, and Ph.D. from Fudan University, China. He has been a visiting scholar at Auburn University and a postdoctoral researcher at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently a professor and the head of the Department of Biology at Shanghai Ocean University. He holds several positions such as the editorial board member of Marine Biotechnology, Vice Chairman of Chinese Ichthyological Society, the council member of Chinese Aquaculture Biotechnology and Genetic Breeding Professional Committee. Over the past 20 years, his research has focused on postembryonic development in fish, especially flatfish metamorphosis, body pigmentation, and intermuscular bone formation.

Chapter 1. General introduction of flatfish metamorphosis.- Chapter 2. Developmental relationships among metamorphic events.- Chapter 3. New tissue models for explaining eye migration.- Chapter 4. Molecular basis of eye migration during flatfish metamorphosis.- Chapter 5. Molecular basis of frontal bones deformation during metamorphosis.- Chapter 6. Molecular basis of dorsal fin elongation and regression during metamorphosis.- Chapter 7. Molecular basis of left/right asymmetrical pigmentation during metamorphosis.- Chapter 8. Molecular basis of body depth change during metamorphosis.- Chapter 9. Genetic basis for eye migration in flatfish.- Chapter 10. Evolutionary origin of left-right eye asymmetry.