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Advances in the Biology of Turbellarians and Related Platyhelminthes: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Turbellaria Held at Fre

by Seth Tyler
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789061935421
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 358
  • Original Price: USD 219.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Reprinted from HYDROBIOLOGIA, 131, 1986
  • Item Weight: 1157 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Life Sciences / Zoology / General

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."

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