The Biology of the Turbellaria: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium held in Diepenbeek, Belgium

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
50 years of turbellarian research A brief biography of Tor G. Karling ....Pages 1-5
The phyletic status of the Paludicola....Pages 7-12
The geographical and bathymetrical distribution of the Fecampiidae (Turbellaria, Rhabdocoela)....Pages 13-16
The taxonomy, zoogeography and biology of Bipalium kewense Moseley, 1878 (Tricladida, Terricola)....Pages 17-17
A new species of freshwater turbellarian from Africa, predatory on mosquitoes: Mesostoma zariae n. sp. (Typhloplanoida)....Pages 19-22
Paravortex karlingi sp. nov. from Cerastoderma edule L., in Britain....Pages 23-30
Karyological observations on Polyclads....Pages 31-44
The karyotypes of Dugesia species from Spain (Turbellaria, Tricladida)....Pages 45-52
Karyological and taxonomic studies of Dugesia japonica Ichikawa et Kawakatsu in the Far East....Pages 53-68
Studies on the speciation of Japanese freshwater planarian Polycelis auriculata based on the analysis of its karyotypes and constitutive proteins....Pages 69-77
Studies on the speciation of the European freshwater planarians Polycelis nigra and Polycelis tenuis based on the analysis of enzyme variation by means of iso-electric focusing....Pages 79-86
The ecology of the Turbellaria with special reference to the freshwater triclads....Pages 87-90
A comparative study of the food niches of lake-dwelling triclads and leeches....Pages 91-102
Oxygen availability, redox and the distribution of some Turbellaria Schizorhynchidae and other forms....Pages 103-112
Sand dwelling Turbellaria from the Netherlands Delta area....Pages 113-127
Notes on the biology of some psammophile Turbellaria of the Black Sea....Pages 129-130
On some commensal Turbellaria of the Canadian East Coast....Pages 131-137
New England Coelogynoporidae....Pages 139-145
Physiological adaptations to entosymbiosis in three species of graffillid rhabdocoels....Pages 147-153
The diet of three species of umagillid neorhabdocoel turbellarians inhabiting the intestine of echinoids....Pages 155-162
Reproductive biology of Dugesia sanchezi, a fresh-water planarian from Chile....Pages 163-165
Contrasting power of the factors for fission and sexuality in a polyploid planarian....Pages 167-169
The embryological development of Turbellaria Kalyptorhynchia (Rhabdocoela)....Pages 170-170
The problem of cell totipotency, dedifferentiation and transdifferentiation in Turbellaria....Pages 171-179
Quantitative analysis of cell types during growth, degrowth and regeneration in the planarians Dugesia mediterranea and Dugesia tigrina....Pages 181-194
Relationship between variations of cAMP, neuromediators and the stimulation of nucleic acid synthesis during planarian (Polycelis tenuis) regeneration....Pages 195-201
Cell activation during regeneration of planarians....Pages 203-207
Adenylate cyclase in regenerating tissues of the planarian Dugesia lugubris (O. Schmidt)....Pages 209-212
Morphology of the Turbellaria at the ultrastructural level....Pages 213-229
Development of cilia in embryos of the turbellarian Macrostomum....Pages 231-239
The system of epidermal ciliary rootlets in Turbellaria....Pages 240-240
Ultrastructure of the epidermis of adult and embryonic Paravortex species (Turbellaria, Eulecithophora)....Pages 241-252
Ultrastructural observations on paracnids. I: Coelogynopora axi Sopott (Turbellaria, Proseriata)....Pages 253-257
Fine-structural observations on the central parenchyma in Convoluta sp.....Pages 259-265
The ultrastructure of the eyes in larval and adult polyclads (Turbellaria)....Pages 267-275
Ultrastructure of the eye of Urastoma cyprinae (Turbellaria, Alloeocoela)....Pages 276-276
Observations on the ultrastructure of the copulatory organ of Archilopsis unipunctata (Fabricius, 1826) (Proseriata, Monocelididae)....Pages 277-285
Fine structure of the giant aflagellate spermatozoon in Pseudostomum quadrioculatum (Leuckart) (Platyhelminthes, Prolecithophora)....Pages 287-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-301