This volume reviews the most important advances that have taken place in the interpretation of the structure and function of molluscan systems. A detailed treatment of each organ system is presented with particular emphasis on skin, shell, muscle, and excretory systems, and luminescences. Emphasis is given to recent research and the current status of each topic.
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In most phyla the major diagnostic features may be observed during at least some part of the life cycle of all species, but there is no single key character present throughout the Mollusca. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nephridial gland, papillary sac, midgut sac, transverse muscle bundles, subradular pouch, radular sheath, foregut glands, radular apparatus, packed muscle fibers, axial nerve cord, intracrystalline matrix, excretory epithelium, molluscan epidermis, dorsoventral muscle fibers, molluscan skin, pallial cavity, renopericardial canal, ctenidial vein, cephalopod photophores, periostracal layer, auricular glands, cameral liquid, free rachis, secondary ureter, turgescent cells Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Woods Hole, Cell Tissue Res, After Stanley, Cambridge Philos, Cambridge Univ, New Zealand, Physiology of Mollusca, Niigata Univ, South Carolina, Tissue Cell, Yokosuka City Mus, Biology of the Integument, North Carolina, After Jennings, British Prosobranch Molluscs, Cephalopoda of the North Atlantic, Masae Omori Mem, New Jersey, Oxford Univ, Princeton Univ, Ray Soc, The Mechanisms of Biomineralization, Tokai Univ New!
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In most phyla the major diagnostic features may be observed during at least some part of the life cycle of all species, but there is no single key character present throughout the Mollusca. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nephridial gland, papillary sac, midgut sac, transverse muscle bundles, subradular pouch, radular sheath, foregut glands, radular apparatus, packed muscle fibers, axial nerve cord, intracrystalline matrix, excretory epithelium, molluscan epidermis, dorsoventral muscle fibers, molluscan skin, pallial cavity, renopericardial canal, ctenidial vein, cephalopod photophores, periostracal layer, auricular glands, cameral liquid, free rachis, secondary ureter, turgescent cells Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, Woods Hole, Cell Tissue Res, After Stanley, Cambridge Philos, Cambridge Univ, New Zealand, Physiology of Mollusca, Niigata Univ, South Carolina, Tissue Cell, Yokosuka City Mus, Biology of the Integument, North Carolina, After Jennings, British Prosobranch Molluscs, Cephalopoda of the North Atlantic, Masae Omori Mem, New Jersey, Oxford Univ, Princeton Univ, Ray Soc, The Mechanisms of Biomineralization, Tokai Univ New!
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- British Prosobranch Molluscs by Vera Fretter on 4 pages
- Chemical Zoology, Vol. 4: Annelida, Echiura, and Sipuncula by Marcel Florkin on page 98, page 285, and page 447
- Metabolic Biochemistry, Volume 4 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Fishes) (Vol 4) by T.P. Mommsen in Front Matter, page 33, and page 102
- Mechanical Design in Organisms by Stephen A. Wainwright on page 209, and page 251
- Biomineralization and Biological Metal Accumulation: Biological and Geological Perspective. Papers presented at the Fourth International Symposium on ... Renesse, The Netherlands, June 2-5, 1982 by P. Westbroek on page 99, and page 100
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