Reproductive Strategies and Developmental Patterns in Annelids

Reproductive and developmental phenomena in annelids: a source of exemplary research problems.- Structure, function and development of segmental organs in Annelida.- Reproduction of the Syllidae (Annelida: Polychaeta).- Reproduction and larval development of the spioniform Polychaeta with application to systematics and phylogeny.- Reproduction and development in Cirratulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta).- Divergence of reproductive and developmental characteristics in Hediste (Polychaeta: Nereididae).- Nereidid polychaetes as model organisms for marine chemical ecology.- Metabolite supply in oocytes of Nereis virens: role of nucleosides.- Polychaete aquaculture and polychaete science: a mutual synergism.- Development of Perviata and Vestimentifera (Pogonophora).- Sexual conflict and mating systems in the dorvilleid genus Ophryotrocha and the dinophilid genus Dinophilus.- Polychaete sperm: phylogenetic and functional considerations.- Sperm types and their use for a phylogenetic analysis of aquatic clitellates.- Larval settlement of polychaetes.- Conservation and innovation in spiralian development.- The ancestral cleavage pattern of the clitellates and its phylogenetic deviations.- Cellular origins of bilateral symmetry in glossiphoniid leech embryos.- Systematization of the Annelida: different approaches.