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Turbellarian Biology

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

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Seth Tyler

    1. Department of Zoology Murray Hall, University of Maine, Orono, USA

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Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology (DIHY, volume 69)

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Table of contents (55 papers)

  2. Karyology

    1. Further survey of chromosomal polymorphisms in the freshwater planarian Polycelis auriculata

      • Wataru Teshirogi, Fumio Ni-imura, Sachiko Ishida
      Pages 147-156

    2. Karyological and taxonomic studies of Dugesia japonica from the Southwest Islands of Japan-II

      • Sachiko Tamura, Iwashiro Oki, Masaharu Kawakatsu
      Pages 157-162

    3. Karyology of four land-planarian species of the genus Bipalium from Japan

      • Iwashiro Oki, Sachiko Tamura, Robert E. Ogren, Masaharu Kawakatsu
      Pages 163-167

    4. Cytogenetic studies of two land-planarian species from Brazil: Geoplana marginata and Issoca rezendei (Tricladida, Terricola)

      • Eunice Judith Cardoso de Almeida, Cecília Mikie Yamada, Eudoxia Maria Froehlich
      Pages 169-173

    5. Analysis of ploidy in a planarian by flow cytometry

      • Kouichi Hoshino, Kazunori Ohnishi, Wataru Yoshida, Talmo Shinozawa
      Pages 175-178

  6. Ultrastructure of other systems

    1. Fine structure and function of ocelli and sagittocysts of acoel flatworms

      • Terufumi Yamasu
      Pages 273-282
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Turbellarian platyhelminths (or, as they are known now among cladistic systematists, free-living Platyhelminthes) comprise a widely distributed assemblage of lower worms found in marine, freshwater, and even occasionally in terrestrial habitats. The phylum Platyhelminthes may be more widely known for its parasitic members since the major parasitic groups of the tapeworms, flukes, and their relatives are more speciose and have greater impact on everyday human life; but the turbellarians are more diverse and, as inhabitants of virtually any aquatic habitat, are more widespread as well. Many of the lower turbellarians are rather simple in morphology and have served as models for ancestors of the Bilateria, i.e., the bulk of the animal phyla. Others are quite complex organisms, especially in the morphology of their reproductive systems which are highly specialized. The majority are free-living in aquatic habitats but a number of interesting parasitic and commensal species are found scattered among the higher turbellarian taxa.
But turbellarians are more than just taxonomic curiosities. They have served as illustrative models in research on a variety of basic life processes. For example, their high capacity for regeneration has made them the subject of a large literature in developmental biology, the occurrence of mixoploidy and other karyological oddities among turbellarians has been important in understanding evolution of the genome, and the fine structure and biochemistry of the nervous system in turbellarians is revealing important principles of the organization of so-called primitive neural systems.

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'The Kluwer Academic Publishers deserve all appreciation for excellent production and get up this book which will be very useful to zoologists, comparative animal physiologists, cell, development, reproductive and evolutionary biologists, neurobiologists, taxonomists, ecologists and oncologist.' Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 31 1993

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Zoology Murray Hall, University of Maine, Orono, USA

    Seth Tyler

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Turbellarian Biology

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on the Biology of the Turbellaria, held at Hirosaki, Japan, 7–12 August 1990

  • Editors: Seth Tyler

  • Series Title: Developments in Hydrobiology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2775-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1373-1Due: 31 January 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5232-0Published: 20 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2775-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 398

  • Number of Illustrations: 144 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Zoology, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology

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