The Comparative Embryology of Sponges

• Main Author: Ereskovsky, Alexander V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Developmental biology.; Embryology.; Zoology.; Morphology (Animals).; Marine Sciences.; Environment.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.; Developmental Biology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8575-7

One of the major questions in the evolution of animals is the transition from unicellular to multicellular organization, which resulted in the emergence of Metazoa through a hypothetical Urmetazoa. The Comparative Embryology of Sponges contains abundant original and literary data on comparative embr...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Development of Sponges from the Class Calcarea Bowerbank, 1864
• 2. Development of Sponges from the Class Hexactinellida Schmidt, 1870
• 3. Development of sponges from the class Demospongiae Sollas, 1885
• 4. Development of Homoscleromorpha; order Homosclerophorida Dendy, 1905
• 5. Typization of sponge development and its significance for phylogeny
• 6. Comparative analysis of individual development in sponges
• 7. Evolution and individual development of sponges: regularities and directions
• 8. In place of conclusion: Bauplan and phylotypic stage in Porifera
• Literature references
• Figures legends
• Taxonomic Index.