Echinoderms: Munchen Proceedings of the 11th International Echinoderm Conference, 6-10 October 2003, Munich, Germany

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Organisation......Page 6
Editorial......Page 8
Table of Contents......Page 10
Historical retrospect......Page 22
Echinoderms for all......Page 26
Reproduction and development......Page 28
And Then There Were More: Cloning by Larvae of Echinoderms......Page 30
Gonadal cycle of Pseudechinus magellanicus (Philippi, 1857) (Echinoidea: Temnopleuridae) from Patagonia, Argentina......Page 38
Egg quality, fertilization success, and population structure in field-contaminated populations of Asterias rubens......Page 42
A PCR survey of Hox genes in the stalked crinoid Metacrinus rotundus......Page 48
Ontogenic change in density and thickness of spines in the sand dollarScaphechinus mirabilis (A. Agassiz, 1863) from the waters of Japan......Page 52
Effects of increased atmospheric CO2and decreased pH on sea urchinembryos and gametes......Page 58
Cysteine proteases in sea urchin eggs and embryos of Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus......Page 64
Development of the sea lily Metacrinus rotundus: Comparisons with feather stars......Page 68
Effect of salinity on the larval development of Echinaster brasiliensisMüller & Troschel, 1842 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea)......Page 72
Does calcein affect estimates of growth rates in sea urchins?......Page 80
Crown regeneration in the extant sea lilies Metacrinus interruptusandSaracrinus nobilis......Page 86
Development of skeletal components in the larval stalk of thefeather star Oxycomanthus japonicus......Page 88
Post-larval development of Oxycomanthus japonicus (Crinoidea)......Page 92
Identification of postlarvae of some North Atlantic ophiuroids(Echinodermata) - a short preview*......Page 96
Reproduction and population genetics of Coscinasteriastenuispina(Asteroidea: Asteriidae) on the Brazilian coast......Page 100
Echinoferrin: A newly proposed name for a precursor to yolkprotein in the sea urchin......Page 106
Ectoderm-ECM signaling promotes skeletal growth in the Paracentrotus lividussea urchin embryo......Page 110
Regeneration and immunology......Page 116
Exposure effects of organotin compounds (TPT-Cl) on regenerativepotential of crinoids......Page 118
Regenerative potential of echinoid test......Page 124
Dexamethasone-induced apoptosis in phagocytes of holothurian Eupentacta fraudatrix......Page 132
Regenerative potential and fissiparity in the starfish Coscinasteriasmuricata......Page 140
Mannan-binding lectins of echinoderms are components of humoral defense......Page 146
Gut formation during development and regeneration inEupentacta fraudatrix......Page 154
Visceral graft and regeneration in the crinoid Antedon mediterranea......Page 162
New evidence for serotonergic control of regenerative processes in crinoids......Page 168
Ecology and zoogeography......Page 174
The state of knowledge on echinoderms of Costa Rica and Central America......Page 176
Morphological dimensional differences in two geographically separated populations of Encope emarginata (Leske) from the coast of Brazil......Page 288
Shallow-water holothuroid (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) biodiversity and biogeography of the subtropical east coast of South Africa......Page 280
Recording of environmental parameters in the skeleton of Asterias rubens and Sphaerechinus granularis......Page 276
Observation of Asteroidea (Echinodermata) around the Indonesian island of Bali......Page 272
Distribution and abundance of asteroids, echinoids, and holothuroids in Galapagos......Page 266
Sea cucumber diversity and resources in Brunei, Borneo Island......Page 258
Distribution, abundance, and asexual reproduction of Asterina burtoni (Asteroidea: Echinodermata) from La Reunion reefs (Western Indian Ocean)......Page 252
Echinoderm assemblages in the deep Greenland Sea: patterns in space*......Page 248
A most unusual barrens: Complex interactions between lobsters, sea urchins and algae facilitates spread of an exotic kelp in eastern Tasmania......Page 240
A study of epibiont distribution on the spines of the cidaroid sea urchin, Eucidaris tribuloides (Lamarck, 1816) from the shallow shelf of the eastern Gulf of Mexico......Page 234
Comparative biodiversity of ectosymbionts in two Antarctic cidaroid echinoids, Ctenocidaris spinosa and Rhynchocidaris triplopora......Page 228
Reproductive biology of Synaptiphilus luteus and Allantogynus delamarei, two symbiotic copepods of holothuroids......Page 220
Exposure temperature affects nutrient absorption in Lytechinus variegatus......Page 214
Seasonal trends in population density of Ophiactis resiliens (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) in the Sydney region, Australia......Page 210
Sea urchin mass mortality associated with algal debris from ice scour......Page 204
Organisms associated with diadematid echinoids in Fiji......Page 198
Population biology of shallow water holothuroids and ophiuroids from Raine Island and Moulter Cay, Northern Great Barrier Reef......Page 192
Diversity of echinoderms at Raine Island, Great Barrier Reef......Page 186
Abundance and distribution of ophiuroids off Helgoland, German Bight (North Sea)*......Page 184
Aquaculture and fisheries......Page 294
A study of the biology for fishery in two populations of Cucumaria frondosa: in the Barents Sea (Russia) and in the Gulf of Maine (USA)......Page 296
Test of a suspended recruitment and juvenile grow out system for the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis in the Gulf of Maine......Page 304
Sea urchin aquaculture: a review and outlook......Page 310
Physiology and behaviour......Page 318
Characteristics of trypsin from the starfish Asterias amurensis......Page 320
First study of bioluminescence in Ophionereis......Page 326
A new bioluminescent ophiuroid species from the coast of California......Page 332
Feeding rate and impact of sediment reworking by two deposit feeders Holothuria leucospilota and Holothuria atra on a fringing reef (Reunion Island, Indian Ocean)......Page 338
Functional morphology......Page 346
Ultrastructure of the radial nerve cord in the holothurian Eupentacta fraudatrix......Page 414
Unusual morphological features of the compass-rotular ligament of Echinus esculentus L.......Page 406
Mutable collagenous tissue: Recent progress and an evolution perspective......Page 398
The progress of mineral deposition within the developing tooth of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus and its relation to specialized matrix proteins......Page 392
Microstructure of sea urchin teeth studied by multiple x-ray modes......Page 386
Very high resolution synchrotron microCT of sea urchin ossicle structure......Page 380
Active state in echinoderm muscle......Page 378
An echinoderm’s eye view of photoreception and vision......Page 366
Immuno-localisation of nNOS, CRF and S-100 in ecto/hyponeural cells and fibres of Ophiothrix gragilis......Page 362
Functional morphology of the tentacles in the apodid holothuroid Synapta Maculata......Page 354
Shrinking sea urchins and the problems of measurement......Page 348
Palaeontology and taphonomy......Page 418
New data and interpretations of the crinoid-platyceratid interaction......Page 420
Tholocystis kolihai aff. (Echinodermata, Cystoidea, Diploporita, Sphaeronitida) from the Middle Ordovician of SW Spain......Page 426
Bioerosion on Dobrotivian cystoids from Montes de Toledo, Spain......Page 430
Mode of life of ophiocistioids (Echinozoa) according to plated and ‘naked’ forms in the Rhenish Devonian......Page 436
Morphology and palaeobiology of echinoderms in the Lower Devonian of the Argentine precordillera......Page 444
‘Worm holothurians’ from the Lower Jurassic of Göttingen, Germany......Page 448
Observations on Aganaster gregarius and Stephanoura belgica (Ophiuroidea: Ophiolepididae) (Early Carboniferous and late devonian age)......Page 452
Ophiuroid trace fossils in the Triassic of Japan compared to the resting behavior of extant brittle stars......Page 460
Experimental decay and disarticulation of Ophiura texturata: implications fort the fossil record of ophiuroids......Page 466
First fossil record of the family Euryalidae (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Middle Miocene of the Central Mediterranean......Page 474
Echinoderms from the Miocene of Chile......Page 480
Archaeocidarid and bothriocidarid Echinozoa from the Silurian of Gotlands, Sweden......Page 484
Fossil echinoids from Neolithic and Iron Age sites in Jordan......Page 486
The ontogeny sequence of Gammarocrinites bakonicus Manni, Nicosia & Szabó 1992......Page 494
Taphonomy of Echinoderms: introduction and outlook......Page 498
Functional morphology of brachioles in gogiid and other Early and Middle Cambrian Eocrinoids......Page 506
Aspidochirote holothurians (Echinodermata) from the Middle Triassic of Southern Germany......Page 512
Holothurians from the Late Cretaceous ‘Fish shales’ of Lebanon*......Page 514
Ophiocistioidea (fossil Echinodermata): an overview......Page 516
The echinoderms of the Rügen White Chalk (Maastrichtian, Germany)......Page 522
Constructional “mistakes” in the evolution of blastoid echinoderms......Page 530
Asteroidea in Late Cretaceous taphocoenoses of Bohemia, Czech Republic......Page 536
Phylogeny, systematics and taxonomy......Page 540
On two abyssal Myriotrochidae new to the South Atlantic (Holothuroidea: Apodida)......Page 542
Remarks on some Holothuroidea described by Heller from the eastern Adriatic Sea......Page 544
Evolution of development and the Ophiuroidea-revisited......Page 548
Phylogenetic relationships and morphological diversity in the family Echinometridae (Echinoida, Echinodermata)......Page 554
Phylogenetic affinity between Asterinidae and Solasteridae......Page 558
The Ophiocoma erinaceus complex: another case of cryptic speciation in echinoderms......Page 564
Deuterostome phylogeny and the interpretation of problematic fossil echinoderms......Page 570
Revision of the genus Synallactes (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Synallactidae)......Page 574
The early evolution of irregular echinoids......Page 578
Variations in the form of the spicules within different regions of the introvert of dendrochirotids holothuroids......Page 584
Abstracts......Page 590
Larval development of a sea urchin, Stomopneustes variolaris is not of the Echinometrid type, but of the Arbacioid type, having 12-armed pluteus stage......Page 642
Electrophysiological studies of light emission in 3 ophiuroid species: Preliminary results......Page 641
Tubulin expression and the regeneration of the enteric nervous system in the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima......Page 640
An enzymatic method for examining calcareous ossicles from holothurians......Page 639
Echinoderm nervous systems: Diversity, development & regeneration......Page 638
Molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives on spatangoid evolution......Page 637
Mitochondrial genome sequence of two crinoids......Page 636
Pelagic crinoids in the fossil record......Page 635
A study of Holothuria scabra (Jaeger) on different types of sediment at Bolinao, Pangasinan (Philippines)......Page 634
Biomechanical study of adhesion in sea urchins (Echinodermata, Echinoidea) and its relationship with species distribution in the wave-swept environment......Page 633
Localization and action of NGIWYamide in starfish......Page 632
Sexual and asexual reproduction of Allostichaster inaequalis (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from the patagonian coast......Page 631
Late cretaceous holothurians (Echinodermata): An overview......Page 630
Reproductive cycle of Cosmasterias lurida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) in the patagonian coast......Page 629
Patterns in species diversity of asterozoan assemblages in the eastern Weddell Sea (Antarctica) and northwestern Greenland Sea (Arctic)......Page 628
Ecology of shell-breaking predation on Cretaceous and early Cenozoic sea urchins: Patterns and processes......Page 627
A question of being bored – predation on Echinocyamus from the Oligo-Miocene......Page 626
Relationship between the reproductive cycle and the content of pulcherrimine, a novel bitter amino acid, in green sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus ovaries......Page 625
Temporal change in density and biomass of five aspidochirotid holothurians species (Holothuroidea: Echinodermata) inhabiting the Posidonia oceanica meadow of the Sidi Fredj peninsula (Algeria)......Page 624
A modern, soft-bottom, shallow-water, tropical crinoid fauna, with a comparison between living Comatula rotalaria and fossil Uintacrinus socialis (Echinodermata: Crinoidea)......Page 623
The jelly role blues: The function of egg and jelly-coat size in sea urchin fertilization ecology......Page 622
Evolution of echinoderms may not have required modification of the ancestral deuterostome Hox gene cluster: First report of PG4 and PG5 orthologues in echinoderms......Page 621
Vertical posture of the sand dollar Encope michelini......Page 620
Tethyan echinoids from the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Paleogene of the Gschliefgraben (Eastern Alps, Upper Austria)......Page 618
Biodiversity of western Central Paratethys echinoderms during the Neogene......Page 617
Phylogeny of Holothuroidea based on 18S and histone 3 DNA sequences......Page 616
An evolutionary breakthrough to new modes of life in spatangoid echinoids......Page 615
Range extension of the long-spined sea urchin (Centrostephanus rodgersii) threatens abalone and rock lobster fisheries on the east coast of Tasmania......Page 614
New data on the holopodid crinoid Cyathidium vlieksi (Late Cretaceous, The Netherlands)......Page 613
Facies control on distribution of crinoid habitats in the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of England, implications for other echinoderm groups......Page 612
Crinoids from the Lower Jurassic of Arzo (southern Switzerland)......Page 611
Changes in dermal ossicles of Chiridota rotifera and Synaptula hydriformis (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)......Page 610
Allee effects and species of g. Cucumaria......Page 609
Genetic characterization of intestinal symbiotic bacteria of spatangoid echinoids: a comparative study......Page 608
Parasitic turbellaria in Holothuria tubulosa, Holothuria forskali and Cucumaria planci in the northern Adriatic Sea......Page 607
Complete larval development of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus fed an artificial feed......Page 606
Estimation of the evolution of the cuvierian tubules, defense organs in the family Holothuriidae, by the character mapping method and by ultrastructural analyses......Page 605
Population changes in two co-existing starfish species. Episode two, the new millenium......Page 604
Rapid microevolution induced by an endo-parasite species in the brittlestar Amphipholis squamata......Page 603
Vetulicolians: Cambrian animals with the key to early deuterostome evolution?......Page 602
Molecular comparison of a Texas population of ophiactid brittle star with Ophiactis simplex and Ophiactis rubropoda......Page 601
Echinoderm regeneration as a sensitive test for exposure to ED contaminants......Page 600
Evolution of live-birth in asterinid sea stars......Page 599
Distribution and abundance of echinoderms on the continental shelf and upper slope of the Colombian Caribbean Sea......Page 598
Echinoderms of the continental shelf and upper slope of the Colombian Carribbean Sea: New records and zoogeographical considerations......Page 597
The white spot disease in cultivated juveniles of Holothuria scabra (Echinodermata)......Page 596
Anionic tooth matrix protein motifs of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus may be similar to vertebrate tooth protein motifs......Page 595
Reproduction and larval development of the New Zealand asteroid Odontaster benhami (Echinodermata: Asteroidea)......Page 594
Environmental effects and molecular mechanisms in ophiuroid arm regeneration......Page 593
Tolerance to varying temperature and pressure conditions in Psammechinus miliaris: discussing deep-sea invasion by echinoids......Page 592
Miscellaneous......Page 644
Conferees......Page 646
Author Index......Page 658