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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Author:   Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa (Curator, Curator, Zoological Museum and Institute, University of Hamburg) ,  Steffen Harzsch (Professor of Cytology and Evolutionary Biology, Professor of Cytology and Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, University of Greifswald) ,  Günter Purschke (Professor of Zoology and Developmental Biology, Professor of Zoology and Developmental Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Osnabrück)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.60cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 28.10cm
Weight:   2.930kg
ISBN:  

9780199682201

ISBN 10:   0199682208
Pages:   768
Publication Date:   17 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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 *

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 *

Author Information

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).

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