Coelenterate Biology 2003: Trends in Research on Cnidaria and Ctenophora

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Charles McLean Fraser (1872–1946) – his contributions to hydroid research and to the development of fisheries biology and academia in British Columbia....Pages 3-11
From birds to hydroids: Charles Cleveland Nutting (1858–1927) of the University of Iowa, USA....Pages 13-25
The first description of nerves in a cnidarian: Louis Agassiz’s account of 1850....Pages 27-32
Front Matter....Pages 34-34
Biogenic amine receptors in the sea pansy: activity, molecular structure, and physiological significance....Pages 35-40
Chemical anatomy of hydra nervous system using antibodies against hydra neuropeptides: a review....Pages 41-47
Neuropeptides and photic behavior in Cnidaria....Pages 49-57
Different roles of GABA and glycine in the modulation of chemosensory responses in Hydra vulgaris (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)....Pages 59-66
Glutamatergic and GABAnergic control in the tentacle effector systems of Hydra vulgaris ....Pages 67-71
Epithelial conduction: recent findings, old questions, and where do we go from here?....Pages 73-80
Impulse conduction in the jellyfish Aglantha digitale....Pages 81-89
Spasm behavior and the diffuse nerve-net in Cassiopea xamachana (Scyphozoa: Coelenterata)....Pages 91-96
Mechanoreception and synaptic transmission of hydrozoan nematocytes....Pages 97-105
Cnidarian neurobiology: what does the future hold?....Pages 107-116
Neural pathways and innervation of cnidocytes in tentacles of sea anemones....Pages 117-121
Dynamic tuning of hair bundle mechanoreceptors in a sea anemone during predation....Pages 123-128
The photobiology of Hydra’s periodic activity....Pages 129-134
Photoreceptors of cubozoan jellyfish....Pages 135-144
A mechanosensory system that controls feeding in adult Mnemiopsis ....Pages 145-153
Primary inhibition: a mechanism for sudden stoppage of metachrony in ctenophores....Pages 155-162
Nematocysts of Polypodium hydriforme , a cnidarian parasite of acipenseriform fishes....Pages 165-171
Nematocyst composition of the cubomedusan Chiropsalmus quadrigatus changes with growth....Pages 173-177
A review of zoanthid nematocyst types and their population structure....Pages 179-187
Variability in nematocysts from a single individual of the sea anemone Actinodendron arboreum (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria)....Pages 189-197
Hydroid nematophores: morphological, structural, and behavioural variety from old knowledge and new data....Pages 199-208
Use of X-radiographs to distinguish members of the Montastraea annularis reef-coral species complex....Pages 211-222
Redescription of Bedotella armata from Biscay Bay, northern Spain, the type species of Bedotella Stechow, 1913 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Lafoeidae), with comments on its taxonomic position....Pages 223-230
First full description of the large physonect siphonophore Halistemma amphytridis (Lesueur & Petit, 1807)....Pages 231-240
Phylogeny and biogeography of Anthopleura in the North Atlantic Ocean....Pages 241-248
Some implications of molecular phylogenetics for understanding biodiversity in jellyfishes, with emphasis on Scyphozoa....Pages 249-260
On the taxonomy and presumable evolutionary pathways of planktonic larvae of Ceriantharia (Anthozoa, Cnidaria)....Pages 261-266
Cloning and sequencing of cDNA encoding glutamine synthetase from the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida ....Pages 267-272
The dynamics of multiple mouth formation in Fungia granulosa : possible patterning mechanisms....Pages 275-281
Evolution and dynamics of branching colonial form in marine modular cnidarians: gorgonian octocorals....Pages 283-290
The role of polyp-stolon junctions in the redox signaling of colonial hydroids....Pages 291-298
Variations on a theme? Polyp and medusa development in Podocoryna carnea ....Pages 299-307
The development and evolution of hydrozoan polyp and colony form....Pages 309-317
Morphogenetic evolution of hydroid colony pattern....Pages 319-327
Budding, bud morphogenesis, and regeneration in Carybdea marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758 (Cnidaria: Cubozoa)....Pages 331-337
Growth and age determination of the tropical Australian cubozoan Chiropsalmus sp....Pages 339-345
The life cycle of Chrysaora lactea Eschscholtz, 1829 (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) with notes on the scyphistoma stage of three other species....Pages 347-354
D-Methionine and gold chloride alleviate adverse eects of glutamate on motility of ephyrae of Aurelia aurita (Linnaeus, 1758) (Scyphozoa: Semaeostomeae)....Pages 355-363
Medusoid release and spawning of Macrorynchia philippina Kirchenpauer, 1872 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Aglaopheniidae)....Pages 365-372
Gonad development and somatic growth patterns of Olindias sambaquiensis (Limnomedusae, Olindiidae)....Pages 373-381
Reproduction of the colonial hydroid Obelia geniculata (L., 1758) (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) in the White Sea....Pages 383-388
Heterogeneous and compensatory growth in Melithaea flabellifera (Octocorallia: Melithaeidae) in Japan....Pages 389-397
Reproduction and the unusual condition of hermaphroditism in Sarcophyton glaucum (Octocorallia, Alcyoniidae) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa....Pages 399-409
The reproductive biology of Parazoanthus parasiticus (Hexacorallia: Zoanthidea) in Bermuda....Pages 411-419
Morphological and genetic variation across reef habitats in a broadcast-spawning octocoral....Pages 423-432
Demographic aspects of the soft coral Sinularia flexibilis leading to local dominance on coral reefs....Pages 433-441
Allorecognition and xenorecognition in reef corals: a decade of interactions....Pages 443-450
Epidermal structure of the scleractinian coral Mycetophyllia ferox: light-induced vesicles, copious mucocytes, and sporadic tentacles....Pages 451-458
Adaptive bleaching: a general phenomenon....Pages 459-467
Observations of a new source of coral mortality along the Kenyan coast....Pages 469-479
Coral mortality, recovery and reef degradation at Mexico Rocks Patch Reef Complex, Northern Belize, Central America: 1995–1997....Pages 481-487
Synoptic water clarity assessment in the Florida Keys using diffuse attenuation coefficient estimated from Landsat imagery....Pages 489-493
Distribution of sea anemones (Cnidaria, Actiniaria) in Korea analyzed by environmental clustering....Pages 497-502
Description and ecology of Cytaeis capitata n. sp. (Hydrozoa, Cytaeididae) from Bunaken Marine Park (North Sulawesi, Indonesia)....Pages 503-511
Effects of anemonefish on giant sea anemones: expansion behavior, growth, and survival....Pages 513-520
Predation of freshwater jellyfish on Bosmina : the consequences for population dynamics, body size, and morphology....Pages 521-528
Associations between gelatinous zooplankton and hyperiid amphipods (Crustacea: Peracarida) in the Gulf of California....Pages 529-535
The scyphomedusan fauna of the Japan Trench: preliminary results from a remotely-operated vehicle....Pages 537-547
A golden age of gelata: past and future research on planktonic ctenophores and cnidarians....Pages 549-556
Back Matter....Pages 557-565