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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of morphology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.652
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1097-4687
pISSN - 0362-2525
DOI - 10.1002/jmor.21343
Subject(s) - biology , flatworm , anatomy , nervous system , serotonergic , commissure , dorsum , central nervous system , neuroscience , zoology , serotonin , biochemistry , receptor
Cover illustration. Prolecithophora is a poorly studied taxon of flatworms. In this issue of the Journal of Morphology, Grosbusch and coauthors (pp. 574‐587) report about a study of the serotonergic nervous system of six different prolecithophoran species using fluorescent immunocytochemical techniques. The topographic anatomy of the nervous system is discussed in a phylogenetic framework. The cover image is a depth‐color coded projection of an immunostaining of the serotonergic nervous system of the prolecithophoran flatworm Acmostomum dioicum, showing a trapezoid brain with unstained eyes near the anterior end (up) and the orthogon with prominent longitudinal nerve cords and transversal commissures. Blue is more dorsal, yellow more ventral.