Turbellarian Biology Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on the Biology of the Turbellaria, held at Hirosaki, Japan, 7-12 August 1990 - Tyler, Seth.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1991)
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 in Macrostomum (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.
Keywords: Aquatic ecology .; Zoology; Animal anatomy; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Zoology; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology