Reproductive Strategies and Developmental Patterns in Annelids

by Dorresteijn, Adriaan W. C.; Westheide, Wilfried

• ISBN13: 9780792360186
• ISBN10: 0792360184
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The fascination of the Annelida to scientists lies in the beauty of their structures and the functionality of their body plan, the tremendous adaptive radiation which has made it possible for these animals to colonize almost all marine, limnic and terrestrial biotopes. In doing so they have evolved a great variety of life forms, and their reproduction and development are correspondingly diverse, with many modes and patterns unique in the animal kingdom. In this special volume recent progress in this broad research area is presented by 26 specialists, in general through surveys or treatments of selected examples. Some of them review important annelid taxa such as the Nereididae, Syllidae, Spionidae, Cirratulidae, Clitellata, and Pogonophora; others analyse reproductive and developmental structures and phenomena in annelids, e.g. segmental organs, sex pheromones, oogenesis, mating systems, sperm types, life cycles, larval settlement, cleavage and symmetry of embryos, or discuss controversial approaches to annelid systematics. The book will be of interest to all zoologists who work with annelids as well as to embryologists and other researchers in reproductive biology.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
List of participants	ix
Reproductive and developmental phenomena in annelids: a source of exemplary research problems	1	(20)
Albrecht E. Fischer
Structure, function and development of segmental organs in Annelida	21	(18)
Thomas Bartolomaeus
Reproduction of the Syllidae (Annelida: Polychaeta)	39	(18)
Hans-Dieter Franke
Reproduction and larval development of the spioniform Polychaeta with application to systematics and phylogeny	57	(50)
James A. Blake
Pamela L. Arnofsky
Reproduction and development in Cirratulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta)	107	(22)
Mary E. Petersen
Divergence of reproductive and developmental characteristics in Hediste (Polychaeta: Nereididae)	129	(16)
Masanori Sato
Nereidid polychaetes as model organisms for marine chemical ecology	145	(18)
Jorg D. Hardege
Metabolite supply in oocytes of Nereis virens: role of nucleosides	163	(12)
Ulrich Hoeger
Nicole Rebscher
Gunter Geier
Polychaete aquaculture and polychaete science: a mutual synergism	175	(10)
Peter J.W. Olive
Development of Perviata and Vestimentifera (Pogonophora)	185	(18)
Eve C. Southward
Sexual conflict and mating systems in the dorvilleid genus Ophryotrocha and the dinophilid genus Dinophilus	203	(12)
Gabriella Sella
Liliana Ramella
Polychaete sperm: phylogenetic and functional considerations	215	(10)
Greg W. Rouse
Sperm types and their use for a phylogenetic analysis of aquatic clitellates	225	(14)
Marco Ferraguti
Christer Erseus
Larval settlement of polychaetes	239	(16)
Pei-Yuan Qian
Conservation and innovation in spiralian development	255	(12)
Jonathan J. Henry
Mark Q. Martindale
The ancestral cleavage pattern of the clitellates and its phylogenetic deviations	267	(18)
Wolfgang Dohle
Cellular origins of bilateral symmetry in glossiphoniid leech embryos	285	(6)
David A. Weisblat
Systematization of the Annelida: different approaches	291	(18)
Wilfried Westheide
Damhnait McHugh
Gunter Purschke
Greg W. Rouse
Index	309