Structure and Evolution of Invertebrate Nervous Systems

by Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, Steffen Harzsch, Günter Purschke

Overview

The nervous system is particularly fascinating for many biologists because it controls animal characteristics such as movement, behavior, and coordinated thinking. Invertebrate neurobiology has traditionally been studied in specific model organisms, whilst knowledge of the broad diversity of nervous system architecture and its evolution among metazoan animals has received less attention. This is the first major reference work in the field for 50 years, bringing together many leading evolutionary neurobiologists to review the most recent research on the structure of invertebrate nervous systems and provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview for a new generation of researchers. Presented in full colour throughout, Structure and Evolution of Invertebrate Nervous Systems synthesizes and illustrates the numerous new findings that have been made possible with light and electron microscopy. These include the recent introduction of new molecular and optical techniques such as immunohistochemical staining of neuron-specific antigens and fluorescence in-situ-hybridization, combined with visualization by confocal laser scanning microscopy. New approaches to analysing the structure of the nervous system are also included such as micro-computational tomography, cryo-soft X-ray tomography, and various 3-D visualization techniques. The book follows a systematic and phylogenetic structure, covering a broad range of taxa, interspersed with chapters focusing on selected topics in nervous system functioning which are presented as research highlights and perspectives. This comprehensive reference work will be an essential companion for graduate students and researchers alike in the fields of metazoan neurobiology, morphology, zoology, phylogeny and evolution.

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ISBN-13:	9780191066214
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	12/17/2015
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Pages:	776
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About the Author

Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa studied biology at the universities in Gießen and Göttingen, Germany, where he received his PhD in 1996, working on the ultrastructure and phylogeny of horsehair worms (Nematomorpha). As postdoc, he worked in Jim Garey´ s lab at the Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and at the University of South Florida in Tampa, USA on molecular systematics of nematomorphs. Between 1998 and 2004 he was scientific assistant in the working group of Thomas Bartolomaeus at the University of Bielefeld, where he then did a postdoc between 2004 and 2007. Since April 2007 he has been Curator for Lower Invertebrates at the Zoological Museum of the University of Hamburg. His research interests include animal morphology and systematics, with particular interest in the taxa Nematomorpha, Gastrotricha and Priapulida. Steffen Harzsch obtained his PhD from the University of Bielefeld, Germany in 1995 working on neurogenesis in crustacean larvae at the Department of Neurobiology and in the lab of Klaus Anger at the Marine Biological Station on the island of Helgoland in the North Sea. After a postodc at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and a Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation, he worked from 2007 to 2008 as a group leader for neuroanatomy in the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany. In 2009, he received tenure as a full Professor of Cytology and Evolutionary Biology at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany. His expertise is in studies on neurophylogeny and NeuroEvoDevo of arthropods and Chaetognatha. Günter Purschke, Professor at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany, is working on morphology, systematics, phylogeny and evolution of Annelida and related taxa. His research interests currently focus on evolution and diversity of photoreceptor cells and eyes, of the central nervous system and body wall musculature. He studied biology and chemistry at the University of Göttingen, and earned his PhD in Zoology in 1984. He was subsequently assistant at the University of Osnabrueck to the chair of Systematic Zoology (Prof. W. Westheide). After having received the venia legendi for Zoology (1997) he was appointed as extraordinary professor in 2002. Since 2004 he has been working with the chair of Zoology and Developmental Biology (Professor A. Paululat).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, Steffen Harzsch and Gunter Purschke
2. Perspective - How to write an Invertebrate Anatomy Book, Adrian Horridge
3. Porifera, Sally P. Leys and Nathan Farrar
4. Perspective - Evolution of neural cell types, Detlev Arendt
5. Cnidaria, Thomas Leitz
6. Ctenophora, David K. Simmons and Mark Q. Martindale
7. Acoelomorpha, Andreas Hejnol
8. Xenoturbella, Thomas Stach
9. Perspective -The first brain, Heinrich Reichert and Nadia Riebli
10. Free living Plathelminthes, Volker Hartenstein
11. Neodermata, Natalia M. Biserova
12. Gnathostomulida, Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa
13. Rotifera, Rick Hochberg
14. Acanthocephala, Henrike Semmler Le
15. Gastrotricha, Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa and Birgen H. Rothe
16. Nemertini, Pat Beckers and Jorn van Dohren
17. Kamptozoa (Entoprocta), Andreas Wanninger
18. Mollusca: Caudofoveata, Monoplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Solenogastres, Julia D. Sigwart and Lauren H. Sumner-Rooney
19. Mollusca: Bivalvia, Andreas Wanninger
20. Mollusca: Gastropoda, Elena E. Voronezhskaya and Roger P. Croll
21. Mollusca: Cephalopoda, Tim Wollesen
22. Annelida: Myzostomida, Conrad Helm and Christoph Bleidorn
23. Annelida: Sipuncula, Alen Kristof and Anastassya S. Maiorova
24. Annelida: Basal groups and Pleistoannelida, Gunter Purschke
25. Perspective - Nervous system development in bilaterian larvae - testing the concept of 'primary larvae', Stefan Richter, Thomas Stach and Andreas Wanninger
26. Bryozoa (Ectoprocta), Alexander Gruhl
27. Brachiopoda, Carsten Luter
28. Phoronida, Elena Temereva
29. Cycliophora, Ricardo Neves
30. Cycloneuralia, Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa and Birgen Rothe
31. Tardigrada, Corinna Schulze and Dennis Persson
32. Onychophora, Georg Mayer
33. Perspective - Heads and Brains in Arthropods: 40 years after the 'endless dispute', Gerhard Scholtz
34. Perspective - Brain Atlases for studying neuronal circuitry in arthropods, Jurgen Rybak
35. Pycnogonida (Pantopoda), Georg Brenneis
36. Xiphosura, Barbara Battelle, Andy Sombke and Steffen Harzsch
37. Scorpiones, Harald Wolf
38. Arachnida (exkl. Scorpiones), Steffen Harzsch, Andy Sombke, Elisabeth Lipke, Peter Michalik, Roland Melzer
39. Myriapoda, Andi Sombke and Jorg Rosenberg
40. Perspective - Evolution of neurogenesis in arthropods - open questions and future directions, Angelika Stollewerk
41. Research Spotlight - Adult neurogenesis in the decapod crustacean brain: The immune system supplies neural progenitors, D.C. Sandeman, J.L. Benton and B.S. Beltz
42. Cephalocarida, Martin Stegner and Stephan Richter
43. Maxillopoda and Branchiopoda, Martin Fritsch and Stephan Richter
44. Remipedia, Torben Stemme and Steffen Harzsch
45. Malacostraca, Manfred Schmidt
46. Perspective - Evolutionary aspects of motor control and coordination: the central pattern generators in the crustacean stomatogastric and swimmeret systems, Wolfgang Stein, Carola Stadele and Carmen R. Smarandache-Wellmann
47. Research Spotlight - The brain of Hexapoda, Gabriella Wolff and Nicholas J. Strausfeld
48. Research Spotlight - Olfactory coding in Drosophila melanogaster, Silke Sachse and Bill S. Hansson
49. Research Spotlight - Insect polarisation vision: peripheral and central mechanisms, Eric Warrant and Uwe Homberg
50. Chaetognatha, Steffen Harzsch, Ivan Perez and Carsten H.G. Muller
51. Echinodermata, Vladimir Mashanov, Olga Zueva, Tamara Rubilar, Lucia Epherra and Jose E. Garcia-Arraras
52. Hemichordata, Thomas Stach
53. Tunicata, Lucia Manni and Roberta Pennati
54. Acrania, Thurston Lacalli and Thomas Stach
55. Perspective - The Origin of Vertebrate Neural Organization, Thurston Lacalli

Editorial Reviews

"This is an important, up-to-date, and highly useful summary of comparative neuroanatomy among the invertebrates, by 78 of the worlds top neuroanatomists. How I wish this book had been available while writing my own invertebrate textbooks.The volume by Schmidt- Rhaesa et al. belongs in every invertebrate zoologists library. It will stand the test of time." — Richard C. Brusca, The Quarterly Review of Biology

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