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Publication year - 2022
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.21466
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , biology , zooid , image (mathematics) , taxon , epidermis (zoology) , anatomy , paleontology , computer science , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , engineering
Bryozoa are small colonial coelomates. They are “origami‐animals”, composed of three complexly folded epithelial layers: epidermis of the zooidal/colonial body wall, gut epithelium and coelothelium. In this issue of the Journal of Morphology, Tamberg and coauthors (pp. 406–427) investigated the microscopic anatomy and ultrastructure of the body wall and polypide in four taxa of the genus Hornera in the taxon Cyclostomatatida. They document a number of morphological variations i.e., cell layers can lose the basement membrane and/or continuity of cell cover and cell contacts, orthe cell layer are missing altogether. The cover image shows a longitudinal section through the zooid of Hornera robusta .