Echinoderm Research [Hardcover]

This book is an outcome of the second European conference on Echinoderm brussels held in Belgium in 1989. It covers the following areas of research in echinoderm: paleontology, reproduction, development and larval biology, evolution, systematics and biogeography, morphology and physiology.Plenary lectures 1. The significance of a non-centralized nervous system to general studies on echinoderm biology 2. Palaeontological approaches to evolution in echinoderms 3. Biological control of skeleton properties in echinoderms Palaeontology 4. Depositional environment and palaeoecology of crinoid-communities from the Middle Jurassic Burgundy-Platform of Western Europe 5. Premi?res d?couvertes du genre Trachypatagus Pomel (Echinoidea, Spatangoida) dans les terrains mioc?nes du bassin du Rhone 6. Lanc?tre ?oc?ne des Scutellidae (Echinoidea; Clypeasteroida) 7. Strat?gie adaptative des Hemiaster et des Periaster du Cr?tac? sup?rieur (C?nomanien-Coniacien) de la plate-forme carbonat?e de Tunisic Reproduction, development and larval biology 8. Isolation of a vitellogenic protein from Asterias rubens L. 9. Second generation of Paracentrotus lividus reared in the laboratory: Egg quality tested 10. Reproduction asexu?e par scission chez Holothuria atra (Holothuroidea) dans des populations de platiers r?cifaux 11. Reproductive biology of Tripneustes gratilla (L.) from Gulf of Aqaba and northern Red Sea 12. Reproductive cycle of the ophiuroid Acrocnida brachiata (Montagu) in the Bay of Seine (English Channel) 13. Effect of starvation and the time to first feeding on larvae of Luidia clathrata (Say) (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) 14. The attachment complex of the doliolaria larvae of Antedon bifida (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) 15. Le d?veloppement pr?coce de l?chinide incubant Abatus cordatus: Un nouveau type de gastrulation Evolution, systematics and biogeography 16. Les Crinoides p?doncul?s de Nouvelle-Cal?donie: Inventaire et r?flexions sur les taxons archaiques 17. Strat?gies de dispersl3@