Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The Comparative Embryology of Sponges

  • Book
  • © 2010

Overview

Authors:
  1. Alexander V. Ereskovsky

    1. Biological Faculty, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • First complete compilation of reproduction and development of all Porifera
  • Gives first typization of sponges’ development and discusses the problems concerning origin and evolution of Porifera and their ontogenesis
  • Focusses on the analysis of characteristic features of the ontogenesis in Porifera
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-lix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Special Embryology of Sponges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Development of Sponges from the Class Calcarea Bowerbank, 1864

      • Alexander V. Ereskovsky
      Pages 3-36

    3. Development of Sponges from the Class Hexactinellida Schmidt, 1870

      • Alexander V. Ereskovsky
      Pages 37-46

    4. Development of sponges from the class Demospongiae Sollas, 1885

      • Alexander V. Ereskovsky
      Pages 47-176

    5. Development of Homoscleromorpha of the Order Homosclerophorida Dendy, 1905

      • Alexander V. Ereskovsky
      Pages 177-206

  3. Theoretical aspects of sponge embryology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 208-208
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Typization of Sponge Development and Its Significance for Phylogeny

      • Alexander V. Ereskovsky
      Pages 209-230

    3. Comparative Analysis of Individual Development in Sponges

      • Alexander V. Ereskovsky
      Pages 231-268

    4. Evolution and Individual Development of Sponges: Regularities and Directions

      • Alexander V. Ereskovsky
      Pages 269-281

    5. In Place of Conclusion: Bauplan and Phylotypic Stage in Porifera

      • Alexander V. Ereskovsky
      Pages 283-285

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 287-323
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

One of the major questions in the evolution of animals is the transition from unicellular to multicellular organization, which resulted in the emergence of Metazoa through a hypothetical Urmetazoa. The Comparative Embryology of Sponges contains abundant original and literary data on comparative embryology and morphology of the Porifera (Sponges), a group of 'lower Metazoa'. On the basis of this material, original typization of the development of Sponges is given and the problems concerning origin and evolution of Porifera and their ontogenesis are discussed. A morphogenetic interpretation of the body plan development during embryogenesis, metamorphosis and asexual reproduction in Sponges is proposed. Special attention is given to the analysis of characteristic features of the ontogenesis in Porifera. The book pursues three primary goals: 1) generalization of all existing information on individual development of sponges, its classification and a statement according to taxonomical structure of Porifera; 2) revealing of heterogeneity of morphogenesis and peculiarities of ontogeneses in various clades of Porifera, and also their correlations with the organization, both adult sponges, and their larvae; 3) revealing homology of morphogeneses in both Porifera and Eumetazoa, testifying to the general evolutionary roots of multicellular animals, and peculiar features of sponges' morphogeneses and ontogenesis. This book will be of interest to embryologists, zoologists, morphologists and researchers in evolutionary biology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Biological Faculty, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

    Alexander V. Ereskovsky

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation