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Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Annelida.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny SeriesPublisher: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (699 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781578086580
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of AnnelidaDDC classification:
  • 571.8/126
LOC classification:
  • QL391.A6 -- R44 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Preface to the Series -- Preface to this Volume -- LITERATURE CITED -- Contents -- I-General Reproduction and Phylogeny -- 1. Annelid Phylogeny and Systematics -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 MONOPHYLY OF ANNELIDA -- 1.2.1 Morphology and Monophyly -- 1.2.2 Molecular Sequence Data -- 1.3. ANNELIDA SUBGROUPS -- 1.3.1 Pogonophora, Vestimentifera and Echiura -- 1.3.2 Clitellata, Hirudinida and Oligochaetes -- 1.3.3 Polychaetes -- 1.4 SYSTEMATIZATION USED IN THIS VOLUME -- 1.5 ROOTING THE ANNELID TREE -- 1.6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1.7 LITERATURE CITED -- 2. Oogenesis -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 OVARIAN MORPHOLOGY AND PATTERNS OF OOGENESIS -- 2.2.1 Introduction -- 2.2.2 Patterns of Oogenesis -- 2.3 OOGENESIS: PREVITELLOGENESIS -- 2.4 OOGENESIS: VITELLOGENESIS -- 2.5 PHYLOGENETIC IMPLICATIONS OF OOGENESIS -- 2.6 CONCLUSIONS -- 2.7 LITERATURE CITED -- 3. Annelid Sperm and Spermiogenesis -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 SPERMIOGENESIS -- 3.3 SPERMATOZOA -- 3.3.1 Sperm Terminology -- 3.3.2 Recent Descriptions of Annelid Sperm Ultrastructure -- 3.4 SPERM OF SOME UNUSUAL ANNELIDS -- 3.4.1 Diurodrilus -- 3.4.2 Aeolosomatidae and Potamodrilus -- 3.4.3 Siboglinidae -- 3.4.4 Myzostomida -- 3.5 ANNELID SPERM AND SYSTEMATICS -- 3.6 WHAT IS THE PLESIOMORPHIC SPERM TYPE IN ANNELIDA? -- 3.7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 3.8 LITERATURE CITED -- 4. Sexual Strategies and Mating Systems -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 SIMULTANEOUS HERMAPHRODITISM -- 4.3 SEQUENTIAL HERMAPHRODITISM -- 4.4 GONOCHORISM -- 4.5 MIXED STRATEGIES AND FACULTATIVE CHANGE OF GENDER -- 4.6 PARENTAL CARE -- 4.7 LITERATURE CITED -- 5. Early Annelid Development, A Molecular Perspective -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 THE EGG -- 5.3 CLEAVAGE -- 5.4 GASTRULATION AND GUT DEVELOPMENT -- 5.5 SEGMENTATION -- 5.6 OTHER GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS DURING MORPHOGENESIS: TWO CASE STUDIES OF THE CANDIDATE GENE APPROACH -- 5.6.1 Engrailed.
5.6.2 Hox Genes -- 5.7 SUMMARY AND PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- 5.8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 5.9 LITERATURE CITED -- 6. Annelid Larval Morphology -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. CILIATED BANDS OF LARVAE -- 6.3 TERMS TO DESCRIBE ANNELID LARVAE -- 6.4 LECITHOTROPHY AND LARVAL FEEDING -- 6.5. METAMORPHOSIS -- 6.6 EVOLUTION OF ANNELID LARVAE -- 6.6.1 Introduction -- 6.6.2 Downstream Feeding with Meniscotroch (four kinds?) -- 6.6.3 Opposed-band Larval Feeding (six kinds?) -- 6.6.4 Other Downstream Feeding Mechanisms (four kinds?) -- 6.7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- 6.8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 6.9 LITERATURE CITED -- 7. Larval Ecology of the Annelida -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 LARVAL ECOLOGY -- 7.2.1 Dispersal Potential and Abiotic Factors -- 7.2.2 Larval Trophic Ecology -- 7.2.3 Site of Development -- 7.2.4 Developmental Variation at Generic and Species Level -- 7.2.5 Consequences of Developmental Modes -- 7.2.6 Settlement and Metamorphosis -- 7.2.6.1 Introduction -- 7.2.6.2 Settlement -- 7.2.6.3 Metamorphosis -- 7.2.7 Cues for Settlement and Metamorphosis -- 7.2.7.1 Introduction -- 7.2.7.2 External non-chemical cues -- 7.2.7.3 External chemical cues -- 7.2.7.4 Cues from bacteria -- 7.2.7.5 Cues from diatoms -- 7.2.7.6 Environmental impact on bioactivity of biofilms -- 7.2.7.7 Partially characterized chemical cues -- 7.2.7.8 Inhibitive cues to settlement -- 7.3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 7.4 LITERATURE CITED -- II-Selected Groups of Annelida -- 8. Non-leech Clitellata -- 8.1 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS -- 8.1.1 Definition of Clitellates -- 8.1.2 Molecular Evidence for Higher Clitellate Relationships -- 8.1.3 Phylogeny and Classification of Oligochaetes Sensu Stricto -- 8.1.4 Phylogeny of the Oligochaete Families -- 8.1.5 Spermatozoal Phylogeny -- 8.1.6 Revised Classification of the Clitellata -- 8.2 ANATOMY AND EVOLUTION OF THE OLIGOCHAETE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.
8.2.1 Gonoducts -- 8.2.2 The Clitellum -- 8.2.3 Chaetae Associated with Reproduction -- 8.2.4 Male Pores and Accessory Genital Markings -- 8.2.5 Female Pores -- 8.2.6 Spermathecal Pores -- 8.2.7 Prostate and other Glands and Bursae Associated with the Male Ducts -- 8.2.8 Spermathecae -- 8.2.9 Spermatophores -- 8.2.10 Spermatozeugmata -- 8.2.11 Taxonomic Survey of Reproductive Systems -- 8.2.11.1 Subclass Randiellata -- 8.2.11.2 Subclass Tubificata -- 8.2.11.3 Subclass Lumbriculata -- 8.2.11.4 Subclass Diplotesticulata -- 8.3 OOGENESIS -- 8.4 SPERMATOGENESIS AND SPERMATOZOAL ULTRASTRUCTURE (MARCO FERRAGUTI AND BARRIE G.M. JAMIESON) -- 8.4.1 Spermatogenesis -- 8.4.2 Mature Spermatozoa -- 8.4.3 Double Spermatogenesis in Oligochaetes -- 8.5 MATING AND COITION (BARRIE G.M. JAMIESON) -- 8.6 FERTILIZATION, CLEAVAGE AND DEVELOPMENT -- 8.6.1 Sperm Entry, Polarity and Meiosis -- 8.6.2 Evidence for Polarity in the Primary Oocyte -- 8.6.3 Embryogenesis -- 8.6.4 Organogenesis -- 8.7 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 8.8 LITERATURE CITED -- 9. Hirudinida -- 9.1 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS -- 9.2 ANATOMY WITH REFERENCE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM -- 9.3 GAMETOGENESIS -- 9.4 MATING, FERTILIZATION AND PARENTAL CARE -- 9.5 DEVELOPMENT -- 9.5.1 Cellular Aspects of Leech Development: Cell Lineages and Cell Fates -- 9.5.2 Molecular Aspects of Leech Development: Developmental Regulatory Genes -- 9.6 LITERATURE CITED -- 10. Phyllodocida -- 10.1 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS -- 10.2 ANATOMY WITH REFERENCE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM -- 10.2.1 Epitoky -- 10.2.2 Segmental Organs -- 10.3 OOGENESIS -- 10.4 SPERM ULTRASTRUCTURE -- 10.5 MATING AND FERTILIZATION -- 10.6 DEVELOPMENT -- 10.7 EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE MECHANISMS -- 10.8 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 10.9 LITERATURE CITED -- 11. Cirratuliformia -- 11.1 INTRODUCTION -- 11.2 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS -- 11.2.1 Taxonomic Review.
11.2.2 Recent Systematic Revisions -- 11.3 ANATOMY WITH REFERENCE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM -- 11.3.1 Gonads and Gonoducts -- 11.3.2 Accessory Appendages -- 11.4 ENDOCRINOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION -- 11.5 OOGENESIS -- 11.6 SPERMATOGENESIS -- 11.7 MATING AND FERTILIZATION -- 11.8 DEVELOPMENT -- 11.9 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 11.10 LITERATURE CITED -- 12. Sabellida -- 12.1 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS -- Oweniidae -- Sabellariidae -- Sabellidae -- Serpulidae -- Siboglinidae -- 12.2 ANATOMY WITH REFERENCE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM -- 12.3 REPRODUCTION -- 12.4 EGGS -- 12.5 SPERM -- 12.6 MATING AND FERTILIZATION -- 12.7 LARVAL DEVELOPMENT -- 12.8 ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION -- 12.9 EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE MECHANISMS -- 12.10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 12.11 LITERATURE CITED -- 13. Spionida -- 13.1 INTRODUCTION -- 13.2 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS -- 13.2.1 Systematic History and Current Classification of Spionida -- 13.2.2 Review of Phylogenetic Approaches and Suggested Classification -- 13.3 MORPHOLOGY OF THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, OOGENESIS, AND MORPHOLOGY OF THE EGGS -- 13.4 MORPHOLOGY OF THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, SPERMATOGENESIS, AND MORPHOLOGY OF THE SPERM -- 13.5 MATING AND FERTILIZATION -- 13.5.1 Broadcast Spawners -- 13.5.2 Spermatophore Formation and Sperm Transfer -- 13.5.3 Egg Capsule Formation -- 13.6 DEVELOPMENT -- 13.6.1 Seasonality of Reproduction and Development -- 13.6.2 Larval Development of Broadcast Spawners -- 13.6.3 Larval Development of Viviparous Species -- 13.6.4 Larval Development of Brooded Species Having Egg Capsules -- 13.6.4.1 Diversity of planktic larvae of the polydora complex -- 13.6.5 Direct Development -- 13.6.6 Poecilogony and Adelphophagia -- 13.7 ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION -- 13.8 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 13.9 LITERATURE CITED -- 14. Problematic Annelid Groups -- 14.1 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS.
14.2 ANATOMY WITH REFERENCE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM -- 14.3 OOGENESIS -- 14.4 SPERMATOGENESIS AND SPERMATOZOA -- 14.5 MATING AND FERTILIZATION -- 14.6 DEVELOPMENT -- 14.7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 14.8 LITERATURE CITED -- Index.
Summary: Annelida is a diverse group of animals, commonly referred to as segmented worms and currently comprising around 14000 described species. Found in most marine and freshwater areas, annelids have also successfully occupied many subterranean habitats. This volume documents annelid reproduction in the context of their phylogenetic relationships. It presents an introduction and overview to the current systematics of annelids and provides reviews to broad aspects of reproduction across Annelida. The chapters cover oogenesis, sperm, mating, early development, larval development and larval ecology. The book also covers some of the major clades (or purported clades) of annelids and addresses similar issues. The final chapter covers some of the more problematic annelid groups in terms of their phylogenetic placement.
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Intro -- Preface to the Series -- Preface to this Volume -- LITERATURE CITED -- Contents -- I-General Reproduction and Phylogeny -- 1. Annelid Phylogeny and Systematics -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 MONOPHYLY OF ANNELIDA -- 1.2.1 Morphology and Monophyly -- 1.2.2 Molecular Sequence Data -- 1.3. ANNELIDA SUBGROUPS -- 1.3.1 Pogonophora, Vestimentifera and Echiura -- 1.3.2 Clitellata, Hirudinida and Oligochaetes -- 1.3.3 Polychaetes -- 1.4 SYSTEMATIZATION USED IN THIS VOLUME -- 1.5 ROOTING THE ANNELID TREE -- 1.6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1.7 LITERATURE CITED -- 2. Oogenesis -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 OVARIAN MORPHOLOGY AND PATTERNS OF OOGENESIS -- 2.2.1 Introduction -- 2.2.2 Patterns of Oogenesis -- 2.3 OOGENESIS: PREVITELLOGENESIS -- 2.4 OOGENESIS: VITELLOGENESIS -- 2.5 PHYLOGENETIC IMPLICATIONS OF OOGENESIS -- 2.6 CONCLUSIONS -- 2.7 LITERATURE CITED -- 3. Annelid Sperm and Spermiogenesis -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 SPERMIOGENESIS -- 3.3 SPERMATOZOA -- 3.3.1 Sperm Terminology -- 3.3.2 Recent Descriptions of Annelid Sperm Ultrastructure -- 3.4 SPERM OF SOME UNUSUAL ANNELIDS -- 3.4.1 Diurodrilus -- 3.4.2 Aeolosomatidae and Potamodrilus -- 3.4.3 Siboglinidae -- 3.4.4 Myzostomida -- 3.5 ANNELID SPERM AND SYSTEMATICS -- 3.6 WHAT IS THE PLESIOMORPHIC SPERM TYPE IN ANNELIDA? -- 3.7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 3.8 LITERATURE CITED -- 4. Sexual Strategies and Mating Systems -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 SIMULTANEOUS HERMAPHRODITISM -- 4.3 SEQUENTIAL HERMAPHRODITISM -- 4.4 GONOCHORISM -- 4.5 MIXED STRATEGIES AND FACULTATIVE CHANGE OF GENDER -- 4.6 PARENTAL CARE -- 4.7 LITERATURE CITED -- 5. Early Annelid Development, A Molecular Perspective -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 THE EGG -- 5.3 CLEAVAGE -- 5.4 GASTRULATION AND GUT DEVELOPMENT -- 5.5 SEGMENTATION -- 5.6 OTHER GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS DURING MORPHOGENESIS: TWO CASE STUDIES OF THE CANDIDATE GENE APPROACH -- 5.6.1 Engrailed.

5.6.2 Hox Genes -- 5.7 SUMMARY AND PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- 5.8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 5.9 LITERATURE CITED -- 6. Annelid Larval Morphology -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. CILIATED BANDS OF LARVAE -- 6.3 TERMS TO DESCRIBE ANNELID LARVAE -- 6.4 LECITHOTROPHY AND LARVAL FEEDING -- 6.5. METAMORPHOSIS -- 6.6 EVOLUTION OF ANNELID LARVAE -- 6.6.1 Introduction -- 6.6.2 Downstream Feeding with Meniscotroch (four kinds?) -- 6.6.3 Opposed-band Larval Feeding (six kinds?) -- 6.6.4 Other Downstream Feeding Mechanisms (four kinds?) -- 6.7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- 6.8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 6.9 LITERATURE CITED -- 7. Larval Ecology of the Annelida -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 LARVAL ECOLOGY -- 7.2.1 Dispersal Potential and Abiotic Factors -- 7.2.2 Larval Trophic Ecology -- 7.2.3 Site of Development -- 7.2.4 Developmental Variation at Generic and Species Level -- 7.2.5 Consequences of Developmental Modes -- 7.2.6 Settlement and Metamorphosis -- 7.2.6.1 Introduction -- 7.2.6.2 Settlement -- 7.2.6.3 Metamorphosis -- 7.2.7 Cues for Settlement and Metamorphosis -- 7.2.7.1 Introduction -- 7.2.7.2 External non-chemical cues -- 7.2.7.3 External chemical cues -- 7.2.7.4 Cues from bacteria -- 7.2.7.5 Cues from diatoms -- 7.2.7.6 Environmental impact on bioactivity of biofilms -- 7.2.7.7 Partially characterized chemical cues -- 7.2.7.8 Inhibitive cues to settlement -- 7.3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 7.4 LITERATURE CITED -- II-Selected Groups of Annelida -- 8. Non-leech Clitellata -- 8.1 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS -- 8.1.1 Definition of Clitellates -- 8.1.2 Molecular Evidence for Higher Clitellate Relationships -- 8.1.3 Phylogeny and Classification of Oligochaetes Sensu Stricto -- 8.1.4 Phylogeny of the Oligochaete Families -- 8.1.5 Spermatozoal Phylogeny -- 8.1.6 Revised Classification of the Clitellata -- 8.2 ANATOMY AND EVOLUTION OF THE OLIGOCHAETE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.

8.2.1 Gonoducts -- 8.2.2 The Clitellum -- 8.2.3 Chaetae Associated with Reproduction -- 8.2.4 Male Pores and Accessory Genital Markings -- 8.2.5 Female Pores -- 8.2.6 Spermathecal Pores -- 8.2.7 Prostate and other Glands and Bursae Associated with the Male Ducts -- 8.2.8 Spermathecae -- 8.2.9 Spermatophores -- 8.2.10 Spermatozeugmata -- 8.2.11 Taxonomic Survey of Reproductive Systems -- 8.2.11.1 Subclass Randiellata -- 8.2.11.2 Subclass Tubificata -- 8.2.11.3 Subclass Lumbriculata -- 8.2.11.4 Subclass Diplotesticulata -- 8.3 OOGENESIS -- 8.4 SPERMATOGENESIS AND SPERMATOZOAL ULTRASTRUCTURE (MARCO FERRAGUTI AND BARRIE G.M. JAMIESON) -- 8.4.1 Spermatogenesis -- 8.4.2 Mature Spermatozoa -- 8.4.3 Double Spermatogenesis in Oligochaetes -- 8.5 MATING AND COITION (BARRIE G.M. JAMIESON) -- 8.6 FERTILIZATION, CLEAVAGE AND DEVELOPMENT -- 8.6.1 Sperm Entry, Polarity and Meiosis -- 8.6.2 Evidence for Polarity in the Primary Oocyte -- 8.6.3 Embryogenesis -- 8.6.4 Organogenesis -- 8.7 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 8.8 LITERATURE CITED -- 9. Hirudinida -- 9.1 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS -- 9.2 ANATOMY WITH REFERENCE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM -- 9.3 GAMETOGENESIS -- 9.4 MATING, FERTILIZATION AND PARENTAL CARE -- 9.5 DEVELOPMENT -- 9.5.1 Cellular Aspects of Leech Development: Cell Lineages and Cell Fates -- 9.5.2 Molecular Aspects of Leech Development: Developmental Regulatory Genes -- 9.6 LITERATURE CITED -- 10. Phyllodocida -- 10.1 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS -- 10.2 ANATOMY WITH REFERENCE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM -- 10.2.1 Epitoky -- 10.2.2 Segmental Organs -- 10.3 OOGENESIS -- 10.4 SPERM ULTRASTRUCTURE -- 10.5 MATING AND FERTILIZATION -- 10.6 DEVELOPMENT -- 10.7 EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE MECHANISMS -- 10.8 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 10.9 LITERATURE CITED -- 11. Cirratuliformia -- 11.1 INTRODUCTION -- 11.2 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS -- 11.2.1 Taxonomic Review.

11.2.2 Recent Systematic Revisions -- 11.3 ANATOMY WITH REFERENCE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM -- 11.3.1 Gonads and Gonoducts -- 11.3.2 Accessory Appendages -- 11.4 ENDOCRINOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION -- 11.5 OOGENESIS -- 11.6 SPERMATOGENESIS -- 11.7 MATING AND FERTILIZATION -- 11.8 DEVELOPMENT -- 11.9 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 11.10 LITERATURE CITED -- 12. Sabellida -- 12.1 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS -- Oweniidae -- Sabellariidae -- Sabellidae -- Serpulidae -- Siboglinidae -- 12.2 ANATOMY WITH REFERENCE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM -- 12.3 REPRODUCTION -- 12.4 EGGS -- 12.5 SPERM -- 12.6 MATING AND FERTILIZATION -- 12.7 LARVAL DEVELOPMENT -- 12.8 ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION -- 12.9 EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE MECHANISMS -- 12.10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 12.11 LITERATURE CITED -- 13. Spionida -- 13.1 INTRODUCTION -- 13.2 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS -- 13.2.1 Systematic History and Current Classification of Spionida -- 13.2.2 Review of Phylogenetic Approaches and Suggested Classification -- 13.3 MORPHOLOGY OF THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, OOGENESIS, AND MORPHOLOGY OF THE EGGS -- 13.4 MORPHOLOGY OF THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, SPERMATOGENESIS, AND MORPHOLOGY OF THE SPERM -- 13.5 MATING AND FERTILIZATION -- 13.5.1 Broadcast Spawners -- 13.5.2 Spermatophore Formation and Sperm Transfer -- 13.5.3 Egg Capsule Formation -- 13.6 DEVELOPMENT -- 13.6.1 Seasonality of Reproduction and Development -- 13.6.2 Larval Development of Broadcast Spawners -- 13.6.3 Larval Development of Viviparous Species -- 13.6.4 Larval Development of Brooded Species Having Egg Capsules -- 13.6.4.1 Diversity of planktic larvae of the polydora complex -- 13.6.5 Direct Development -- 13.6.6 Poecilogony and Adelphophagia -- 13.7 ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION -- 13.8 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 13.9 LITERATURE CITED -- 14. Problematic Annelid Groups -- 14.1 PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS.

14.2 ANATOMY WITH REFERENCE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM -- 14.3 OOGENESIS -- 14.4 SPERMATOGENESIS AND SPERMATOZOA -- 14.5 MATING AND FERTILIZATION -- 14.6 DEVELOPMENT -- 14.7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 14.8 LITERATURE CITED -- Index.

Annelida is a diverse group of animals, commonly referred to as segmented worms and currently comprising around 14000 described species. Found in most marine and freshwater areas, annelids have also successfully occupied many subterranean habitats. This volume documents annelid reproduction in the context of their phylogenetic relationships. It presents an introduction and overview to the current systematics of annelids and provides reviews to broad aspects of reproduction across Annelida. The chapters cover oogenesis, sperm, mating, early development, larval development and larval ecology. The book also covers some of the major clades (or purported clades) of annelids and addresses similar issues. The final chapter covers some of the more problematic annelid groups in terms of their phylogenetic placement.

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