Turbellarian Biology Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on the Biology of the Turbellaria, held at Hirosaki, Japan, 7–12 August 1990 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Tyler, Seth. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1991.
Edición:1st ed. 1991.
Colección:Developments in Hydrobiology ; 69
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2775-2
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.