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Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior (Hardcover, 1976 ed.)
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Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior (Hardcover, 1976 ed.)
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The study of coelenterates is now one of the most active fields of
invertebrate zoology. There are many reasons for this, and not
everyone would agree on them, but certain facts stand out fairly
clearly. One of them is that many of the people who study
coelenterates do so simply because they are interested in the
animals for their own sake. This, however, would be true for other
invertebrate groups and cannot by itself explain the current boom
in coelenterate work. The main reasons for all this activity seem
to lie in the considerable concentration of research effort and
funding into three broad, general areas of biology: marine ecology,
cellular-developmental biology and neurobiology, in all of which
coelenterates have a key role to play. They are the dominant
organisms, or are involved in an important way, in a variety of
marine habitats, of which coral reefs are only one, and this
automatically ensures their claims on the attention of ecologists
and marine scientists. Secondly, the convenience of hydra and some
other hydroids as experimental animals has long made them a natural
choice for a variety of studies on growth, nutrition, symbiosis,
morphogenesis and sundry aspects of cell biology. Finally, the
phylogenetic position of the coelenterates as the lowest metazoans
having a nervous system makes them uniquely interesting to those
neurobiologists and behaviorists who hope to gain insights into the
functioning of higher nervous systems by working up from the lowest
level.
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