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Starfish Neuroanatomy

r norman rsn_ at _comcast.net
Wed Jun 9 07:35:00 EST 2004


On 9 Jun 2004 01:15:51 -0700, iain_inkster at hotmail.com (Iain) wrote:

>r norman <rsn_ at _comcast.net> wrote in message news:<sqqbc0pvgn6di76pvoemod1rjafimfal7q at 4ax.com>...
>> On 8 Jun 2004 08:04:05 -0700, iain_inkster at hotmail.com (Iain) wrote:
>> 
>> >Where can I learn everything there is to know about the starfish
>> >nervous system, and how it creates useful behaviour. I don't just want
>> >diagrams; I want descriptions of the dynamics involved, if possible.
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >~Iain
>> 
>> You could start with the work of JLS Cobb:
>> 
>> Cobb, J. L. S. (1987). 
>> Neurobiology of the Echinodermata. In
>> Nervous Systems in Invertebrates (ed. M. A. Ali), pp. 483-525.
>> New York: Plenum Press.
>> 
>> Pentreath VW, Cobb JL
>> Neurobiology of echinodermata.
>> Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 1972 Aug;47(3):363-92.  
>> 
>> Cobb, J. L. S. and Laverack, M. S. (1967). 
>> Neuromuscular systems in echinoderms. 
>> Symp. Zool. Soc., Lond. 20, 25-51.
>> 
>> Cobb, J. L. S. (1988) 
>> A preliminary hypothesis to account for the neural basis of behaviour
>> in echinoderms.
>>  In: Echinoderm Biology.
>>  R. D. Burke, M. V. Mladenov, P. Lambert and R. L. Parsley, eds.,
>> Rotterdam, Balkema : 565-573. 
>> 
>> Cobb, J. L. S. and Moore, A. (1989) 
>> Studies on the integration of sensory information by the nervous
>> system of the brittlestar Ophiura ophiura. 
>> Marine Behavior And Physiology, 14, 211- 212. 
>> 
>> Cobb, J. L. S. (1989) 
>> Enigmas of echinoderm nervous systems. In: Evolution Of The First
>> Nervous Systems. 
>> P. A. V. Anderson, eds., 
>> New York, Plenum Press : 329-337. 
>> 
>> Cobb, J. L. S. and Hendler, G. (1990) 
>> Neurophysiological characterization of the photoreceptor system in a
>> brittlestar, Ophiocoma wendtii (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea).
>> Comparative Biochemistry And Physiology, 97A(3), 329-333. 
>> 
>> Cobb, J. L. S. and Begbie, K. M. (1994) 
>> Aspects of the hyponeural nervous system. 
>> In: Echinoderms Through Time (Echinoderms Dijon). 
>> B. David, A. Guille, J. P. Féral and M. Roux, eds., 
>> Rotterdam, Balkema : 25-29.
>
>Thanks much. I find the web useless for this sort of thing but the
>usenet invaluable.
>
>~Iain

Actually, I got all those citations from a web search! 

Cobb's name quickly turned up on a google for "Echinoderm
neurobiology" and then a name search revealed the rest.




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