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The animals on the cover of .NET Framework Essentials are shrimp. The 2,000 species of shrimp range in size from fractions of an inch to 8 inches-with an average size of about 4 inches. Like other crustaceans (including lobsters, crabs, crayfish, and barnacles), the shrimp has a segmented body covered by a hard, translucent exoskeleton, has a flexible abdomen and fan-shaped tail, and utilizes a “toolkit” of jointed appendages-each with specialized functions for various activities. The shrimp’s exoskeleton, while providing a strong protective layer over its body, must be shed occasionally to allow for growth in a process called molting. Similar to this process of regrowth, lost appendages can be regenerated if need be.
Different species of shrimp are found in marine and fresh water--shallow and deep--all over the world. Swimming backward by rapidly flexing its abdomen and tail, and with the assistance of specialized legs for swimming, the shrimp feeds on smaller plants and animals, as well as carrion. In fact, several species engage in symbiotic (mutually benefical or dependent) relationships with other organisms. The coral shrimp (Stenopus hispidus) cleans the scales of the coral fish, while the fish in turn swims backward through the shrimp’s pincers (presumably to clean them). In addition, species of Alpheus shrimp share burrows with blind goby fish. The shrimp brings food to the goby, while the goby cleans the burrow and warns the shrimp of danger by using signaled body movements.
Interestingly, certain species of shrimp are hermaphroditic. The juvenile shrimp grows up as a male and is fully functional in sexual reproduction with females. When it reaches half the size of the female, the male shrimp loses its male sexual organs and develops those of the female. Upon reaching full size, the shrimp is then a typical female and is fully able to mate again. However, this time it mates with a juvenile male, rather than with an adult female as before.
Jeffrey Holcomb was the production editor and copyeditor for .NET Framework Essentials. Mary Brady and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Sada Preisch and Edie Shapiro provided production assistance. Joe Wizda wrote the index.
Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with Quark™XPress 4.1 using Adobe’s ITC Garamond font.
David Futato designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Anne-Marie Vaduva converted the files from Microsoft Word to FrameMaker 5.5.6 using tools created by Mike Sierra. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book; the code font is Constant Willison. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Jeffrey Holcomb.
The online edition of this book was created by the Safari production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Madeleine Newell) using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, and Jeff Liggett.