Development of Sea Urchins, Ascidians, and Other Invertebrate Deuterostomes: Experimental Approaches
Development of Sea Urchins, Ascidians, and Other Invertebrate Deuterostomes: Experimental Approaches

Author: Charles A. Ettensohn

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing

Published: 2004-10-22

Total Pages: 948

ISBN-13: 9780124802797

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This book provides a practical guide to experimental methods for studying the development of invertebrate deuterostomes, such as sea urchins, ascidians, hemichordates, and amphioxus. These model organisms are of contemporary and historical importance to the study of developmental biology, particularly genomic research. The chapters provide detailed experimental protocols that cover a broad range of topics in modern experimental methods. Topics covered range from rearing embryos to the care of adult animals, while also presenting the basic experimental methods including light and electron microscopy, used to study gene expression, transgenics, reverse genetics, and genomic approaches. * Covers a wide range of methods, from classical embryology through modern genomics * Discusses animals related to vertebrates, providing a valuable evolutionary perspective * Includes a practical guide to the use of sea urchins in the teaching laboratory

The Origins of Larvae
The Origins of Larvae

Author: D. Williamson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9401703574

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Many biological facts are irreconcilable with the assumption that larvae and adults evolved from the same genetic stock. The author of this book draws attention to these, and presents his alternative hypothesis that larvae have been transferred from one taxon to another. In his previous book (Larvae and Evolution, 1992), the author used larval transfer to explain developmental anomalies in eight animal phyla. In the present book, he claims that the basic forms of all larvae and all embryos have been transferred from foreign taxa. This leads to a new, comprehensive theory on the origin of embryos and larvae, replacing the discredited 'recapitulation' theory of Haeckel (1866). Metamorphosis, previously unexplained, represents a change in taxon during development.

Echinoderms
Echinoderms

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Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2019-02-16

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 0128159553

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Echinoderms, Volume 150 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this update presenting interesting chapters on procuring animals and culturing of eggs and embryos, cryopreservation of sea urchin gametes, emerging echinoderm models, culturing of sand dollars, cidaroids and heart urchins, culturing echinoderm larvae through metamorphosis, microinjection methods, injection of exogenous messages and protein overexpression, blastomere transplantation, visualization of embryonic polarity, larval immune cell approaches, methods for analysis of sea urchin primordial germ cells, and protocols and best practices for toxicology and pH studies using echinoderms and several new chapters outlining the use of sea urchins in the classroom. - Clear, concise protocols provided by experts who have established the echinoderms as a model system - Highlights new advances in the field, with this update presenting interesting chapters on echinoderms

Echinoderm Research
Echinoderm Research

Author: Michel Jangoux

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1990-06-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9789061911418

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This book is an outcome of the second European conference on Echinoderm brussels held in Belgium in 1989. It covers the following areas of research in echinoderm: paleontology, reproduction, development and larval biology, evolution, systematics and biogeography, morphology and physiology.

Ecology of Marine Invertebrate Larvae
Ecology of Marine Invertebrate Larvae

Author: Larry McEdward

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-04-08

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 0429610548

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This is the first book to provide a detailed treatment of the field of larval ecology. The 13 chapters use state-of-the-art reviews and critiques of nearly all of the major topics in this diverse and rapidly growing field. Topics include: patterns of larval diversity, reproductive energetics, spawning ecology, life history theory, larval feeding and nutrition, larval mortality, behavior and locomotion, larval transport, dispersal, population genetics, recruitment dynamics and larval evolution. Written by the leading new scientists in the field, chapters define the current state of larval ecology and outline the important questions for future research.

Echinoderms Part B
Echinoderms Part B

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Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 0128170735

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Echinoderms, Volume 151, the latest release in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights advances in the field, with this update presenting chapters on Echinoderm Genome Databases, analysis of gene regulatory networks, using ATAC-seq and RNA-seq to increase resolution in GRN connectivity, multiplex cis-regulatory analysis, experimental approaches GRN/signal pathways, BACs, analysis of chromatin accessibility using ATAC-seq, analysis of sea urchin proteins /Click IT, CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in sea urchins, super-resolution and in toto imaging of echinoderm embryos, and methods for analysis of intracellular ion signals in sperm, eggs and embryos. - Presents clear, concise protocols provided by experts who have established the echinoderms as a model systems - Highlights new advances in the field, with this update presenting interesting chapters on echinoderms

Echinoderm Nutrition
Echinoderm Nutrition

Author: Michel Jangoux

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1982-06-01

Total Pages: 804

ISBN-13: 9789061910800

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The purpose of this book is to present the state of knowledge concerning nutrition and point out directions for future work for the Echinodermata, an ancient group which shows great diversity in form and function, and whose feeding activities can have great environmental impact.