The Comparative Embryology of Sponges

• Main Author: Ereskovsky, Alexander V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Subjects: Environment.; Developmental biology.; Embryology.; Zoology.; Animal anatomy.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.; Developmental Biology.

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:

• Special Embryology of Sponges
• Development of Sponges from the Class Calcarea Bowerbank, 1864
• Development of Sponges from the Class Hexactinellida Schmidt, 1870
• Development of sponges from the class Demospongiae Sollas, 1885
• Development of Homoscleromorpha of the Order Homosclerophorida Dendy, 1905
• Theoretical aspects of sponge embryology
• Typization of Sponge Development and Its Significance for Phylogeny
• Comparative Analysis of Individual Development in Sponges
• Evolution and Individual Development of Sponges: Regularities and Directions
• In Place of Conclusion: Bauplan and Phylotypic Stage in Porifera.