Turbellarian Biology - hardcover

EAN (ISBN-13): 9780792313731
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0792313739
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Publishing year: 1992
Publisher: Springer

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Book author: seth
Book title: biology turbellaria, hirosaki, august 1990, symposium

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Author: Seth Tyler
Title: Developments in Hydrobiology; Turbellarian Biology - Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on the Biology of the Turbellaria, held at Hirosaki, Japan, 7–12 August 1990
Publisher: Springer; Springer Netherland
398 Pages
Publishing year: 1992-01-31
Dordrecht; NL
Language: English
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XXVI, 398 p. 145 illus., 1 illus. in color.

BB; Hardcover, Softcover / Biologie/Ökologie; Ökologie, Biosphäre; Verstehen; Plathelminthes; Platyhelminthes; Xenoturbellida; biochemistry; development; morphology; nervous system; phylogeny; reproductive system; tissue; Freshwater and Marine Ecology; Zoology; Animal Anatomy; Zoologie und Tierwissenschaften; BC

Regeneration and asexual reproduction.- Differentiation during asexual reproduction and regeneration in a microturbellarian.- Studies of the budding process in Convolutriloba retrogemma (Acoela, Platyhelminthes).- Differentiation of epidermal cells in the regenerating planarian Dugesia japonica.- Effect of timing of cutting on patterning and proportion regulation during regeneration of the planarian Dugesia tigrina.- Inhibition of planarian regeneration by melatonin.- Differences in blastema-associated proteins according to position along body axis in regenerating planarians.- Dedifferentiation and redifferentiation of the penis of the freshwater planarian Bdellocephala brunnea.- Pharyngeal regeneration in the land planarian Bipalium kewense.- Cancer.- Two-stage carcinogenesis in the planarian.- Formation of malformed pharynx and neoplasia in the planarian Bdellocephala brunnea following treatment with a carcinogen.- Regeneration and the relationship between regeneration and development of cancerous tumors.- Markers for planarian tissues.- Monoclonal antibodies as markers of specific cell types and regional antigens in the freshwater planarian Dugesia (G.) tigrina.- Production of cell- and tissue-specific monoclonal antibodies in the freshwater planarian Phagocata vivida.- Presence of rhodopsin-like proteins in the planarian head.- Development and reproductive systems.- Analytical studies of the ultrastructure and movement of the spermatozoa of freshwater triclads.- Ultrastructural features of cocoon-shell globules in the vitelline cells of neoophoran platyhelminths.- An electron-microscopic study of syncytium formation during early embryonic development of the freshwater planarian Bdellocephala brunnea.- Organization and differentiation of the body-wall musculature inMacrostomum (Turbellaria, Macrostomidae).- Ultrastructural aspects of nervous-system and statocyst morphogenesis during embryonic development of Convoluta psammophila (Turbellaria, Acoela).- Developmental sequence for the copulatory organs of Kontikia mexicana with remarks on taxonomic significance (Turbellaria: Tricladida: Geoplanidae).- Notes on the biology of the freshwater planarian Dugesia bengalensis (Platyhelminthes Turbellaria Tricladida).- Karyology.- Further survey of chromosomal polymorphisms in the freshwater planarian Polycelis auriculata.- Karyological and taxonomic studies of Dugesia japonica from the Southwest Islands of Japan-II.- Karyology of four land-planarian species of the genus Bipalium from Japan.- Cytogenetic studies of two land-planarian species from Brazil: Geoplana marginata and Issoca rezendei (Tricladida, Terricola).- Analysis of ploidy in a planarian by flow cytometry.- Cellular processes.- Food ingestion by planarian intestinal phagocytic cells - a study by scanning electron microscopy.- Experiments with culture media for planarian cells.- Phagocytic response of planarian reticular cells to heat-killed bacteria.- Nervous system.- On the number and spatial distribution of catecholamine-containing (GA-positive) neurons in some higher and lower turbellarians - a comparison.- Catecholamines demonstrated by glyoxylic-acid-induced fluorescence and HPLC in some microturbellarians.- Are there differences between proseriates and lower flatworms in ultrastructure of the nervous system?.- Immunoreactivity to a specific echinoderm neuropeptide in the nervous system of the flatworm Macrostomum hystricinum marinum (Turbellaria, Macrostomida).- Sensory structures.- Comparative morphology of photoreceptors in free-living plathelminths - a survey.- Comparative morphological studies on the visual systems in a binocular and a multi-ocular species of freshwater planarian.- Ultrastructure of the photoreceptors of Allostoma sp. (Plathelminthes, Prolecithophora).- The multiple eyes of Polycelis. 1. Relation between the number of eyes and body length.- Comparative morphology of statocysts in the Plathelminthes and the Xenoturbellida.- Ultrastructure of other systems.- Fine structure and function of ocelli and sagittocysts of acoel flatworms.- Extracellular matrix in some microturbellarians.- Anatomy and ultrastructure of the proboscis in Mesorhynchus terminostylis (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela).- Unciliated body surface in three species of the Umagillidae (Dalyellioida, Platyhelminthes).- Phylogeny.- On the phylogenetic significance of sagittocysts and copulatory organs in acoel turbellarians.- The evolution of protonephridia of the Platyhelminthes.- Turbellaria Lecithoepitheliata: morphology, systematics, phylogeny.- Taxonomy.- Polyclad turbellarians collected on the Osaka University Expedition to Viti Levu, Fiji, in 1985, with remarks on distribution and phylogeny of the genus Discoplana.- Temnocephalan symbionts of the freshwater crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus from northern Australia.- Methods for taxonomic and distributional studies of terrestrial flatworms (Tricladida: Terricola).- On the taxonomic status of a Dugesia species from Buenos Aires (Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria: Tricladida).- Biogeography and ecology.- Geographical distribution of Polycelis (Seidlia) auriculata in Japan.- Northern circumpolar distribution of brackish-water plathelminths.- Plathelminths in tropical intertidal sediments of northeastern Australia.- Toxicology of planarians.- Commensals.- Commensals of Mytilus galloprovincialis in the Black Sea:Urastoma cyprinae (Turbellaria) and Polydora ciliata (Polychaeta).- History of science.- History of the study of Turbellaria in Japan.