Turbellarian Biology: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on the Biology of the Turbellaria, held at Hirosaki, Japan, 7–12 August 1990

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Differentiation during asexual reproduction and regeneration in a microturbellarian....Pages 1-10
Studies of the budding process in Convolutriloba retrogemma (Acoela, Platyhelminthes)....Pages 11-17
Differentiation of epidermal cells in the regenerating planarian Dugesia japonica ....Pages 19-24
Effect of timing of cutting on patterning and proportion regulation during regeneration of the planarian Dugesia tigrina ....Pages 25-30
Inhibition of planarian regeneration by melatonin....Pages 31-40
Differences in blastema-associated proteins according to position along body axis in regenerating planarians....Pages 41-45
Dedifferentiation and redifferentiation of the penis of the freshwater planarian Bdellocephala brunnea ....Pages 47-56
Pharyngeal regeneration in the land planarian Bipalium kewense ....Pages 57-57
Two-stage carcinogenesis in the planarian....Pages 59-59
Formation of malformed pharynx and neoplasia in the planarian Bdellocephala brunnea following treatment with a carcinogen....Pages 61-70
Regeneration and the relationship between regeneration and development of cancerous tumors....Pages 71-71
Monoclonal antibodies as markers of specific cell types and regional antigens in the freshwater planarian Dugesia (G.) tigrina ....Pages 73-79
Production of cell- and tissue-specific monoclonal antibodies in the freshwater planarian Phagocata vivida ....Pages 81-91
Presence of rhodopsin-like proteins in the planarian head....Pages 93-94
Analytical studies of the ultrastructure and movement of the spermatozoa of freshwater triclads....Pages 95-104
Ultrastructural features of cocoon-shell globules in the vitelline cells of neoophoran platyhelminths....Pages 105-111
An electron-microscopic study of syncytium formation during early embryonic development of the freshwater planarian Bdellocephala brunnea ....Pages 113-118
Organization and differentiation of the body-wall musculature in Macrostomum (Turbellaria, Macrostomidae)....Pages 119-129
Ultrastructural aspects of nervous-system and statocyst morphogenesis during embryonic development of Convoluta psammophila (Turbellaria, Acoela)....Pages 131-137
Developmental sequence for the copulatory organs of Kontikia mexicana with remarks on taxonomic significance (Turbellaria: Tricladida: Geoplanidae)....Pages 139-144
Notes on the biology of the freshwater planarian Dugesia bengalensis (Platyhelminthes Turbellaria Tricladida)....Pages 145-145
Further survey of chromosomal polymorphisms in the freshwater planarian Polycelis auriculata ....Pages 147-156
Karyological and taxonomic studies of Dugesia japonica from the Southwest Islands of Japan-II....Pages 157-162
Karyology of four land-planarian species of the genus Bipalium from Japan....Pages 163-167
Cytogenetic studies of two land-planarian species from Brazil: Geoplana marginata and Issoca rezendei (Tricladida, Terricola)....Pages 169-173
Analysis of ploidy in a planarian by flow cytometry....Pages 175-178
Food ingestion by planarian intestinal phagocytic cells - a study by scanning electron microscopy....Pages 179-185
Experiments with culture media for planarian cells....Pages 187-192
Phagocytic response of planarian reticular cells to heat-killed bacteria....Pages 193-199
On the number and spatial distribution of the catecholamine-containing (GA-positive) neurons in some higher and lower turbellarians - a comparison....Pages 201-208
Catecholamines demonstrated by glyoxylic-acid-induced fluorescence and HPLC in some microturbellarians....Pages 209-219
Are there differences between proseriates and lower flatworms in ultrastructure of the nervous system?....Pages 221-227
Immunoreactivity to a specific echinoderm neuropeptide in the nervous system of the flatworm Macrostomum hystricinum marinum (Turbellaria, Macrostomida)....Pages 229-229
Comparative morphology of photoreceptors in free-living plathelminths - a survey....Pages 231-239
Comparative morphological studies on the visual systems in a binocular and a multi-ocular species of freshwater planarian....Pages 241-249
Ultrastructure of the photoreceptors of Allostoma sp. (Plathelminthes, Prolecithophora)....Pages 251-256
The multiple eyes of Polycelis . 1. Relation between the number of eyes and body length....Pages 257-262
Comparative morphology of statocysts in the Plathelminthes and the Xenoturbellida....Pages 263-271
Fine structure and function of ocelli and sagittocysts of acoel flatworms....Pages 273-282
Extracellular matrix in some microturbellarians....Pages 283-290
Anatomy and ultrastructure of the proboscis in Mesorhynchus terminostylis (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela)....Pages 291-298
Unciliated body surface in three species of the Umagillidae (Dalyellioida, Platyhelminthes)....Pages 299-305
On the phylogenetic significance of sagittocysts and copulatory organs in acoel turbellarians....Pages 307-314
The evolution of protonephridia of the Platyhelminthes....Pages 315-321
Turbellaria Lecithoepitheliata: morphology, systematics, phylogeny....Pages 323-332
Polyclad turbellarians collected on the Osaka University Expedition to Viti Levu, Fiji, in 1985, with remarks on distribution and phylogeny of the genus Discoplana ....Pages 333-339
Temnocephalan symbionts of the freshwater crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus from northern Australia....Pages 341-347
Methods for taxonomic and distributional studies of terrestrial flatworms (Tricladida: Terricola)....Pages 349-352
On the taxonomic status of a Dugesia species from Buenos Aires (Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria: Tricladida)....Pages 353-354
Geographical distribution of Polycelis (Seidlia) auriculata in Japan....Pages 355-363
Northern circumpolar distribution of brackish-water plathelminths....Pages 365-368
Plathelminths in tropical intertidal sediments of northeastern Australia....Pages 369-374
Toxicology of planarians....Pages 375-383
Commensals of Mytilus galloprovincialis in the Black Sea: Urastoma cyprinae (Turbellaria) and Polydora ciliata (Polychaeta)....Pages 385-387
History of the study of Turbellaria in Japan....Pages 389-398