Aquatic Oligochaete Biology: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaete Biology

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Comments on the classification of the Clitellata....Pages 1-5
Did the lumbriculids provide the ancestors of the branchiobdellidans, acanthobdellidans and leeches?....Pages 7-15
Phylogeny and origins of Enchytraeidae....Pages 17-33
Preliminary investigations of hybridization/reticulate evolution in Guaranidrilus (Enchytraeidae: Oligochaeta)....Pages 35-45
Preliminary report on the Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta) of West Florida....Pages 47-56
New Species of Phallodrilus (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) from caves of northern Spain and southwestern France....Pages 57-63
Neurobehavioral specializations for respiratory movements and rapid escape from predators in posterior segments of the tubificid Branchiura sowerbyi ....Pages 65-71
Different models of tubificid spermatozeugmata....Pages 73-82
Body wall organization in enchytraeids....Pages 83-89
Morphogenesis of body wall muscle fibers in Enchytraeus minutus ....Pages 91-97
Histochemical analysis of oligochaete body wall....Pages 99-107
T-system in muscles of microdriles....Pages 109-114
Histophysiology of digestion and observations on the structure of the alimentary canal in the ectosymbiont Chaetogaster limnaei limnaei Baer, 1827 (Annelida: Oligochaeta)....Pages 115-125
Population analysis in mass cultures of Tubifex tubifex ....Pages 127-134
Density-dependent processes in cohorts of Tubifex tubifex , with special emphasis on the control of fecundity....Pages 135-141
Cohort cultures of Tubifex tubifex forms....Pages 143-150
Biological studies upon Enchytraeus variatus Bouguenec & Giani 1987 in breeding cultures....Pages 151-165
Population dynamics of Tubificoides amplivasatus (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) in the Oresund, Denmark....Pages 167-176
Intrinsic and extrinsic variables controlling the productivity of asexual populations of Nais spp, (Naididae, Oligochaeta)....Pages 177-184
Meiobenthic naidid and aeolosomatid oligochaetes from the profundal zone, and relations of species to eutrophication....Pages 185-190
Observations of predator-prey interaction on dispersal of an oligochaete prey, Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri ....Pages 191-193
Pollution and tidal benthic communities of the James River Estuary, Virginia....Pages 195-211
The role of oligochaetes in the management of waters....Pages 213-227
Colonization of a man-made gravel bar by Oligochaeta....Pages 229-234
Aquatic toxicity test for enchytraeids....Pages 235-242
Acute and chronic effects of an anionic surfactant on some freshwater tubificid species....Pages 243-252