Reproductive Strategies and Developmental Patterns in Annelids (Hardcover)

Preface. List of participants. Reproductive and developmental phenomena in annelids: a source of exemplary research problems; A.E. Fischer. Structure, function and development of segmental organs in Annelida; T. Bartolomaeus. Reproduction of the Syllidae (Annelida: Polychaeta); H.-D. Franke. Reproduction and larval development of the spioniform Polychaeta with application to systematics and phylogeny; J.A. Blake, P.L. Arnofsky. Reproduction and development in Cirratulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta); M.E. Petersen. Divergence of reproductive and developmental characteristics in Hediste (Polychaeta: Nereididae); M. Sato. Nereidid polychaetes as model organisms for marine chemical ecology; J.D. Hardege. Metabolite supply in oocytes of Nereis virens: role of nucleosides; U. Hoeger, et al. Polychaete aquaculture and polychaete science: a mutual synergism; P.J.W. Olive. Development of Perviata and Vestimentifera (Pogonophora); E.C. Southward. Sexual conflict and mating systems in the dorvilleid Ophryotrocha and the dinophilid Dinophilus; G. Sella, L. Ramella. Polychaete sperm: Phylogenetic and functional considerations; G.W. Rouse. Sperm types and their use for a phylogenetic analysis of aquatic clitellates; M. Ferraguti, C. Erseus. Larval settlement of polychaetes; P.-Y. Qian. Conservation and innovation in spiralian development; J.J. Henry, M.Q. Martindale. The ancestral cleavage pattern of the clitellates and its phylogenetic deviations; W. Dohle. Cellular origins of bilateral symmetry in glossiphoniid leech embryos; D.A. Weisblat. Systematization of the Annelida: different approaches; W. Westheide, et al. Index.