Evo Devo Non model Species in Cell and Developmental Biology Waclaw Tworzydlo

Part I. Theoretical Background

1. Reflections on Model Organisms in Evolutionary Developmental Biology

2. Hourglass or Twisted Ribbon?

3. Ambulacrarians and the Ancestry of Deuterostome Nervous Systems

Part II. New and Emerging Model Systems in Evo-Devo Research

4.  Oikopleura dioica: An Emergent Chordate Model to Study the Impact of Gene Loss on the Evolution of the Mechanisms of Development

5. Neuropeptides, Peptide Hormones, and Their Receptors of a Tunicate, Ciona intestinalis

6. Emergence of Embryo Shape During Cleavage Divisions

7. Sex Determination, Sexual Development, and Sex Change in Slipper Snails

8. The Cricket Gryllus bimaculatus: Techniques for Quantitative and Functional Genetic Analyses of Cricket Biology

9. The Rove Beetle Creophilus maxillosus as a Model System to Study Asymmetric Division, Oocyte Specification, and the Germ-Somatic Cell Signaling

10. Cell Biology of the Tardigrades: Current Knowledge and Perspectives

11. Development of Xenoturbellida

12. Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Hydra Regeneration

13.  Paramecium Biology

Part III. Evo-Devo in Comparative Context

14. Insights into Germline Development and Differentiation in Molluscs and Reptiles: The Use of Molecular Markers in the Study of Non-model Animals

15. Molecular Markers in the Study of Non-model Vertebrates: Their Significant Contributions to the Current Knowledge of Tetrapod Glial Cells and Fish Olfactory Neurons

16. Embryogenesis of Marsupial Frogs (Hemiphractidae), and the Changes that Accompany Terrestrial Development in Frogs

17. Evolution and Regulation of Limb Regeneration in Arthropods

18. Viviparity in Two Closely Related Epizoic Dermapterans Relies on Disparate Modifications of Reproductive Systems and Embryogenesis

19. Morphology of Ovaries and Oogenesis in Chelicerates

20. Reproduction, Gonad Structure, and Oogenesis in Tardigrades

21. Architecture and Life History of Female Germ-Line Cysts in Clitellate Annelids