Advances in the Biology of Turbellarians and Related Platyhelminthes - Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Turbellaria held at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, August 5-10, 1984 (Hardcover, Reprinted from HYDROBIOLOGIA, 131, 1986)

While the reality of the taxon Turbellaria has been called into question lately, turbellarians are nevertheless the subject of active research by a sizable group of biologists. Turbellarians are relatives of the major groups of parasitic platyhelminthes - monogeneans, digeneans, and tapeworms - and most are free-living. Because the ancestors to the major parasitic groups would be classified as turbellarians, strict application of princi- ples of phylogenetic systematics dictates that the Turbellaria is not properly considered a separate taxon; i. e. , it is, in the parlance of systematics, a paraphyletic group. The relationships of turbellarians to other inver- tebrates are even more problematic than their relationships to other platyhelminthes; their relatively simple morphology has been variously interpreted as quintessentially primitive - meaning a turbellarian-like ances- tor would have given rise to most of the major groups of invertebrates - or as secondary simplification, meaning they would essentially be a dead-end group. Modern research on turbellarians covers a broad spectrum. Questions of phylogenetics have inspired ultrastructural studies; the simply structured nervous systems of turbellarians make them good subjects for neurophysiology; simplicity of their tissue structure and the limited number of cell types make them good subjects of embryological and regeneration studies; they are emerging as iIIJ. portant indicator species in ecolo- gy; and improvements in biochemical methodology have meant they are at last amenable - despite their small size - to molecular biological study.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Developments in Hydrobiology, 32
Release date:	February 1986
First published:	1986
Editors:	Seth Tyler
Dimensions:	280 x 216 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	358
Edition:	Reprinted from HYDROBIOLOGIA, 131, 1986
ISBN-13:	978-90-6193-542-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Hydrobiology > General Promotions
LSN:	90-6193-542-3
Barcode:	9789061935421

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