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Insights into the organization of plumatellid larvae (lophotrochozoa, Bryozoa) by means of 3D‐imaging and confocal microscopy
Author(s) -
Schwaha Thomas F.,
Handschuh Stephan,
Redl Emanuel,
Wanninger Andreas
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of morphology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.652
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1097-4687
pISSN - 0362-2525
DOI - 10.1002/jmor.20357
Subject(s) - biology , bryozoa , larva , serotonergic , zoology , anatomy , nervous system , ecology , taxonomy (biology) , serotonin , neuroscience , receptor , biochemistry
Cover illustration . Phylactolaemata are the smallest clade of the Bryozoa consisting approximately of 70–80 species. They are an exclusively limnic and possess a rather abberant larval type that is considered to be altered due to accelerated asexual development that is heterochronically shifted into the larval period. In this issue of the Journal of Morphology, Schwaha et al. (pp. 109–120 10.1002/jmor.20326 ) study the serotonergic nervous system and muscular system of plumatellid Phylactolaemata. The cover illustration shows a maximum intensity projection of a CLSM image stack showing the serotonergic nervous system in yellow, muscular system in red and cell nuclei in blue.