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Experimental Embryology in Aquatic Plants and Animals

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Hans-Jürg Marthy

    1. Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series A: (NSSA, volume 195)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Selected Aquatic Plant Organisms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Dasycladaceae: A Family of Giant Unicellular Algae Ideal for Research

      • Sigrid Berger
      Pages 3-19

    3. Acetabularia: A Giant Unicellular Organism for Studying Polarity

      • Sigrid Berger, Walter L. Dillard
      Pages 21-40

    4. Model Algal Systems to Study Plant Development

      • Ralph S. Quatrano
      Pages 41-56

  3. Selected Aquatic Animal Organisms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Experimental Analysis of Developmental Processes in Marine Hydroids

      • Günter Plickert
      Pages 59-81

    3. Reproduction and Development in Ctenophores

      • Christian Sardet, Danièle Carré, Christian Rouvière
      Pages 83-94

    4. Descriptive and Experimental Embryology of the Turbellaria: Present Knowledge, Open Questions and Future Trends

      • Jaume Baguñà, Barbara C. Boyer
      Pages 95-128

    5. Growth, Degrowth and Regeneration as Developmental Phenomena in Adult Freshwater Planarians

      • Jaume Baguñà, Rafael Romero, Emili Saló, Joan Collet, Carme Auladell, Maria Ribas et al.
      Pages 129-162

    6. Genealogy, Geometry and Genes: Experimental Embryology of Caenorhabditis Elegans

      • Einhard Schierenberg
      Pages 163-176

    7. Gap Junctional Communication and Cell Cycle Duration in the Early Molluscan Embryo

      • Jo A. M. Van den Biggelaar, Florenci Serras
      Pages 177-192

    8. In Vitro Preparation of the Early Squid Blastoderm

      • Hans-Jürg Marthy, Luigia Santella, Brian Dale
      Pages 193-196

    9. On the Establishment of Polarity in Polychaete Eggs

      • Adriaan W. C. Dorresteijn, Bernhard Kluge
      Pages 197-209

    10. Experimental Embryology In Leeches: Cellular and Molecular Approaches

      • Susanna Blackshaw
      Pages 211-231

    11. Practical Approaches to the Study of Nervous System Development in Hirudinid Leeches

      • Susanna Blackshaw
      Pages 233-241

    12. Starfish Oocytes and Sea Urchin Eggs as Models to Study the Intracellular Mechanisms Controlling the Cell Division Cycle

      • Laurent Meijer
      Pages 243-255

    13. Morphogenesis in the Sea Urchin Embryo: Mechanism of Gastrulation

      • Robert D. Burke
      Pages 257-272

    14. Fertilization in Aquatic Animals

      • Brian Dale
      Pages 273-289

    15. Patterns of Gene Expression During Ascidian Development

      • William R. Jeffery, Rebecca L. Beach, Frederick E. Harrington, Billie J. Swalla, Mary E. White
      Pages 291-314
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The NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Experimental Embryology in Aquatic Plant and Animal Organisms" was attended by more than 70 participants, including 15 invited main lecturers from 18 different countries. In accordance with the main purpose of the meeting, senior scientists, postdoctoral investigators and graduate students working in areas of descriptive and experimental embryology, classical, molecular and developmental biology, physiology and biochemistry etc. , were brought together for two weeks as a community with a strong common interest in "development"; that is, the multiple phenomena and mechanisms, in molecular, cellular, genetic and organismic terms, observed in the development of aquatic organisms. Initial concern that the great variety of biological models as well as of research subjects would harm the scientific quality and coherency of the course was unnecessary. It was exactly this breadth which made the Institute worthwhile for each of the participants. Since many of the "students" were younger scientists starting a career, it was the main goal of the course to offer a concise overview of selected system models of primarily aquatic organisms and to present and discuss research carried out in the past and in progress. Thus, each main speaker gave two in-depth lectures: one in which he presented an overview of "his" model and another dealing with current investigations.

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  • Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France

    Hans-Jürg Marthy

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