Coelenterate biology 2003 : trends in research on Cnidaria and Ctenophora : proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Coelenterate Biology, held at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A., 6-11 July 2003

This volume, the proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Coelenterate Biology, is organized as the meeting was around six topics. Because several sessions of ICCB7 constituted the 2003 North American meeting of the International Society for Reef Studies, the subject of coral reefs is strongly represented in the section on Ecology. The other themes are Neurobiology; Reproduction, Development, and Life Cycles; Pioneers in Coelenterate Biology; Cnidae; and Taxonomy and Systematics. Ctenophores, as well as representatives of all four classes of cnidarians are among the study subjects of the research reported in this volume. The theme of variability runs through the volume – be it in cnidae, morphology, behavior, neurobiology, ecology, colony form, or reproduction, variability is a major reason these animals are so interesting and challenging to study! This is a must-read resource for anyone doing research – or planning to do research – on cnidarians and ctenophores. 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