Handbook of Marine Model Organisms in Experimental Biology Established and Emerging

About this book

The importance of molecular approaches for comparative biology and the rapid development of new molecular tools is unprecedented. The extraordinary molecular progress belies the need for understanding the development and basic biology of whole organisms. Vigorous international efforts to train the next generation of experimental biologists must combine both levels – next-generation molecular approaches and traditional organismal biology. This book provides cutting-edge chapters regarding the growing list of marine model organisms. Access to and practical advice on these model organisms have become a conditio sine qua non for a modern education of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs working on marine model systems. Model organisms are not only tools they are also bridges between fields – from behaviour, development and physiology to functional genomics.

Key Features
- Offers deep insights into cutting-edge model system science
- Provides in-depth overviews of all prominent marine model organisms
- Illustrates challenging experimental approaches to model system research
- Serves as a reference book also for next-generation functional genomics applications
- Fills an urgent need for students

Contents

Preface
About the Editors
List of Contributors

1. Marine Bacterial Models for Experimental Biology / Raphael Lami, Regis Grimaud, Sophie Sanchez-Brosseau, Christophe Six, Francois Thomas, Nyree J West, Fabien Joux and Laurent Urios
2. Brown Algae: Ectocarpus and Saccharina as Experimental Models for Developmental Biology / Ioannis Theodorou and Benedicte Charrier
3. Unicellular Relatives of Animals / Aleksandra Kozyczkowska, Inaki Ruiz-Trillo and Elena Casacuberta
4. Porifera / Maja Adamska
5. The Homoscleromorph Sponge, Oscarella lobularis / Emmanuelle Renard, Caroline Rocher, Alexander Ereskovsky and Carole Borchiellini
6. Placozoa / Bernd Schierwater and Hans-Jurgen Osigus
7. Nematostella vectensis as a Model System / Layla Al-Shaer, Jamie Havrilak and Michael J. Layden
8. The Marine Jellyfish Model, Clytia hemisphaerica / Sophie Peron, Evelyn Houliston and Lucas Leclere
9. The Upside-Down Jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana as an Emerging Model System to Study Cnidarian–Algal Symbiosis / Monica Medina, Victoria Sharp, Aki Ohdera, Anthony Bellantuono, Justin Dalrymple, Edgar Gamero-Mora, Bailey Steinworth, Dietrich K. Hofmann, Mark Q. Martindale, Andre C. Morandini, Matthew DeGennaro and William K. Fitt
10. Acropora – The Most-Studied Coral Genus / Eldon E. Ball, David C. Hayward, Tom C.L. Bridge and David J. Miller
11. Stylophora pistillata – A Model Colonial Species in Basic and Applied Studies / Dor Shefy and Baruch Rinkevich
12. Symsagittifera roscoffensis as a Model in Biology / Pedro Martinez, Volker Hartenstein, Brenda Gavilán, Simon G. Sprecher and Xavier Bailly
13. The Annelid Platynereis dumerilii as an Experimental Model for Evo-Devo and Regeneration Studies / Quentin Schenkelaars and Eve Gazave
14. Cycliophora – An Emergent Model Organism for Life Cycle Studies / Peter Funch
15. Crustaceans / Nicolas Rabet
16. Parhyale hawaiensis, Crustacea / John Rallis, Gentian Kapai and Anastasios Pavlopoulos
17. Echinoderms / Florian Pontheaux, Fernando Roch, Julia Morales and Patrick Cormier
18. Echinoderms: Temnopleurus reevesii / Shunsuke Yaguchi
19. Cephalochordates / Salvatore D’Aniello and Stéphanie Bertrand
20. Solitary Ascidians / Gabriel Krasovec, Kilian Biasuz, Lisa M. Thomann and Jean-Philippe Chambon
21. Botryllus schlosseri – A Model Colonial Species in Basic and Applied Studies / Oshrat Ben-Hamo and Baruch Rinkevich
22. Cyclostomes (Lamprey and Hagfish) / Fumiaki Sugahara
23. Current Trends in Chondrichthyes Experimental Biology / Yasmine Lund-Ricard and Agnès Boutet
24. Anemonefishes / Marleen Klann, Manon Mercader, Pauline Salis, Mathieu Reynaud, Natacha Roux, Vincent Laudet and Laurence Besseau

Index

Customer Reviews

Biography

Bernd Schierwater is a Director ITZ and Professor of Zoology, TiHo University Hannover, Germany. He received his PhD (special honours degree summa cum laude) from Technical University Braunschweig (TUB), Germany in 1989. He was a Distinguished Sabbatical Scholar at NESCent, Duke University. He was awarded Senior Ecologist of the Ecological Society of America (2009). His training in evolutionary and ecological genetics has arisen from running laboratories at Frankfurt University (Assistant Professor), Freiberg University (Associate Professor) and Hannover TiHo University (Full Professor) and from working as a Research Associate in different departments at Yale University and also at the AMNH New York (Rob DeSalle lab). He has developed the most primitive metazoan animals, the placozoans, into an emerging model system for next-generation biodiversity and cancer research.