Description:The First Edition of this book was a landmark publishing event in reproductive biology and medicine. Many important developments have occurred in the field, and this revision will be substantially updated and expanded to include new topics. This source is an up-to-date, challenging, integrative, and innovative text that will appeal to a worldwide spectrum of academic and professional readers including postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers in reproductive biology as well as trainees and health care professionals in Ob/Gyn and allied disciplines such as assisted reproduction and oncology.