Coelenterate Biology: Recent Research On Cnidaria And Ctenophora: Proceedings Of The Fifth International Conference On Coelenterate Biology, 1989

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<em>I would recommend this volume to any person or institution with an<em>interest in invertebrate biology.<strong>Comparative Ecology of Micro-organisms and Macro-organisms


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  • Series: Developments in Hydrobiology 66

  • Year: 1,991

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  • Pages: 742

  • Pages In File: 702

  • Language: English

  • Identifier: 978-94-010-5428-7,978-94-011-3240-4

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  • Tags: Freshwater & Marine Ecology Animal Physiology Ecology Zoology

  • Toc: Front Matter....Pages i-xxFront Matter....Pages 1-1The extracellular matrix (mesoglea) of hydrozoan jellyfish and its ability to support cell adhesion and spreading....Pages 3-10Effects of tumor promoters and diacylglycerol on the transdifferentiation of striated muscle cells of the medusa Podocoryne carnea to RF-amide positive nerve cells....Pages 11-17The physiology of feeding in the ctenophore Pleurobrachia pileus ....Pages 19-25Behavioural and ultrastructural studies on the sedentary platyctenean ctenophore Vallicula multiformis ....Pages 27-33Problems of being a cell in a soft body....Pages 35-38An ultrastructural study of the polyp and strobila of Atorella japonica (Cnidaria, Coronatae) with respect to muscles and nerves....Pages 39-43Rhopalium development in Aurelia aurita ephyrae....Pages 45-49Front Matter....Pages 51-51Bud formation in the scyphozoan Cassiopea andromeda : epithelial dynamics and fate map....Pages 53-59Basic morphogenetic processes in Hydrozoa and their evolutionary implications: an exercise in rational taxonomy....Pages 61-67Regression and replacement of hydranths in thecate hydroids, and the structure of hydrothecae....Pages 69-73Differentiation of the interstitial cell line in hydrozoan planulae....Pages 75-82A low-molecular weight factor from colonial hydroids affects body proportioning and cell differentiation....Pages 83-89Polyp regeneration from isolated tentacles of Aurelia scyphistomae: a role for gating mechanisms and cell division....Pages 91-97Front Matter....Pages 99-99Larval development and survivorship in the corals Favia favus and Platygyra lamellina ....Pages 101-108Spawning of hermatypic corals in Bermuda: a pilot study....Pages 109-116Annual cycle of gametogenesis and spawning in a tropical zoanthid, Protopalythoa sp.....Pages 117-123Reproduction and developmental pathways of Red Sea Xeniidae (Octocorallia, Alcyonacea)....Pages 125-130Sperm morphology of scleractinians from the Caribbean....Pages 131-135Embryonic and larval development of the sea anemone Haliplanella lineata from Japan....Pages 137-142Developmental pathways of anthozoans....Pages 143-149F