Structure and Evolution of Invertebrate Nervous Systems

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This is the first synthesis of the broad diversity of nervous system architecture and evolution in 50 years, including contributions from 50 of the leading morphological and taxonomic specialists in the field and describing the most recent advances in the light of new molecular and optical techniques. Zusammenfassung This is the first synthesis of the broad diversity of nervous system architecture and evolution in 50 years, including contributions from 50 of the leading morphological and taxonomic specialists in the field and describing the most recent advances in the light of new molecular and optical techniques. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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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This is the first synthesis of the broad diversity of nervous system architecture and evolution in 50 years, including contributions from 50 of the leading morphological and taxonomic specialists in the field and describing the most recent advances in the light of new molecular and optical techniques.

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• 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 Ble…