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Functional Biology of Sea Anemones (Hardcover)
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Functional Biology of Sea Anemones (Hardcover)
Series: Functional biology
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Sea anemones are among the most ancient of living metazoans. Long a
paradigm of the "elementary nervous system" and constructional
simplicity, sea anemones have been favourite experimental subjects
in behavioural neurophysiology and in biomechanics. Their unique
nematocyst toxins are used to study the sodium and calcium channels
in excitable membranes, and their agonistic interactions provide
insights into the evolution of allororecognition systems.
Incorporation of algal endosymbionts by some of these animals
combines in a single unit both primary producer and consumer, and
provides a tight recycling of scarce nutrients between host and
symbiont. Many species include vegetative proliferation or
parthogenesis in their life cycle and are important organisms in
the study of the evolutionary potential and adaptive demography of
co-ordinated clonal growth and bisexual reproductive strategies.
The ability of clonal anemones to recognize members of different
clones upon contact provides insight into the evolution of immune
systems. This book provides an introduction and synthesis of the
biology of sea anemones. The text is cross-referenced and
integrated, and together with a bibliography, should be valuable to
those interested in the physiology, ecology, biochemistry,
behaviour, population biology and evolution of this group of marine
invertebrates. This book should be of interest to marine
biologists, ecologists and zoologists with a general interest in
themes such as symbiosis and life cycles.
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