Nervous Systems in Invertebrates

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • M. A. Ali

   Pages 1-2

3. Ultrastructure of Invertebrate Synapses

   • Jane A. Westfall

   Pages 3-28

4. Synapse Formation Between Identified Invertebrate Neurones In Vitro

   • Jonathan P. Bacon

   Pages 29-39

5. Identified Neurons and Cellular Homologies

   • Roger P. Croll

   Pages 41-59

6. Functions of Invertebrate Glia

   • V. W. Pentreath

   Pages 61-103

7. Neuropeptides in Invertebrates

   • C. J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen, D. Graff, A. Groeger, I. D. McFarlane

   Pages 105-132

8. Purification, Characterisation and Cellular Distribution of Insect Neuropeptides with Special Emphasis on their Relationship to Biologically Active Peptides of Vertebrates

   • Alan Thorpe, Hanne Duve

   Pages 133-169

9. Neuroactive Substances in the Insect CNS

   • Dick R. Nässel

   Pages 171-212

10. Organization of Conducting Systems in “Simple” Invertebrates: Porifera, Cnidaria and Ctenophora

    • Richard A. Satterlie, Andrew N. Spencer

    Pages 213-264

11. Organisation and Development of the Peripheral Nervous System in Annelids

    • Susanna Elizabeth Blackshaw

    Pages 265-302

12. Ontogenese Du Systeme Nerveux Central Des Chelicerates Et Sa Signification Eco-Ethologique

    • Arturo Muñoz-Cuevas, Yves Coineau

    Pages 303-321

13. The Nervous System of the Crustacea, with Special Reference to the Organisation of The Sensory System

    • M. S. Laverack

    Pages 323-352

14. Aspects of the Functional and Chemical Anatomy of the Insect Brain

    • Dick R. Nässel

    Pages 353-392

15. Insect Neurons: Synaptic Interactions, Circuits and the Control of Behavior

    • R. Meldrum Robertson

    Pages 393-442

16. Ontogenesis of the Nervous System in Cephalopods

    • H.-J. Marthy

    Pages 443-459

17. Nervous System in Chaetognatha

    • T. Goto, M. Yoshida

    Pages 461-481

18. Neurobiology of the Echinodermata

    • J. L. S. Cobb

    Pages 483-525

19. Tunicates

    • Q. Bone

    Pages 527-557

20. Nervous Mechanisms of Spawning in Regular Echinoids

    • M. Yoshida, H. Nogi, Y. Tani

    Pages 559-572

The idea of holding an Advanced Study Institute (ASI) and getting a volume out, on the Nervous Systems in Invertebrates first cropped up in the summer of 1977 at the ASI on Sensory Ecology. I had prepared a review of the nervous systems in coelomates and noticed how much we depended on Bullock and Horridge's treatise on the one hand and how much new material and requirements has cropped up since 1965, when this classical work was published. Interest in the concerted study of pollution and environmental toxicology was growing in geometrical proportions and the use of invertebrates as indices was growing. As a teacher of a course on the biology of invertebrates since the beginning of my career I had also noticed how the interest of the students and the content of my course was shifting gradually and steadily from the traditional morphology-taxonomy type to the physiology-ecology-embryology orientation. Students were demanding to know the relevency of what they had to learn. Thus, after the ASI on Photoreception and Vision in Invertebrates held in 1982 the question of one on nervous systems was raised by a number of colleagues. It appeared then that the consensus was that the time was ripe to hold one and that it will be worthwhile. Therefore, as usual arrangements had to begin at least two years in advance. Most of the persons I contacted to lecture and write chapters on selected topics agreed enthusiastically.

• anatomy
• ecology
• invertebrates
• nervous system
• physiology
• Model invertebrates

• University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

  M. A. Ali

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