Research Catalog

Title

Studies in the structure, physiology, and ecology of molluscs ; the proceedings of a symposium held at the Zoological Society of London on 8 and 9 March, 1967. Edited by Vera Fretter.

Publication

[London] : Academic Press, 1968.

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Additional Authors

• Fretter, Vera.
• Malacological Society of London.

Description

xvii, 377 pages : illustrations.

Series Statement

Symposia of the Zoological Society of London ; no. 22

Uniform Title

Symposia of the Zoological Society of London ; no. 22.

Subjects

• Congress
• Mollusca
• Mollusks

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• Symposium organized in cooperation with the Malacological Society of London.
• U. S. ed. published by the Academic Press, New York.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• The structure of the brain of Helix aspersa. Electron microscope localization of cholinesterase and amines / G. Newman, G.A. Kerkut and R.J. Walker -- The localization of dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine in neurones of Helix aspersa / C.B. Sedden, R.J. Walker and G.A. Kerkut -- The pharmacology of the neurones of Helix aspersa / R.J. Walker, A. Hedges and G.N. Woodruff -- Shell regeneration in Helix pomatia with special reference to the elementary calcifying particles / Anna Abolins-Krogis -- The mechanism of calcification in the molluscan shell / Peter S.B. Digby -- A review of the bivalved gastropods and a discussion of evolution within the Sacoglossa / E. Alison Kay -- The biology of interstitial Mollusca / Bertil Swedmark -- The feeding mechanism and behaviour of the opisthobranch Melibe leonina / Anne Hurst -- The burrowing activities of bivalves / E.R. Trueman -- Aspects of excretion in the molluscs / W.T.W. Potts -- The fine structure of cardiac and other molluscan muscle / R.H. Nisbet and Jenifer M. Plummer -- Gametogenesis and oviposition in Lymnaea stagnalis as influenced by [gamma]-irradiation and hunger / J. Joosse, Maria H. Boer and C.J. Cornelisse -- Electron microscopy study of neurosecretory organs in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis / H.H. Boer, Elisabeth Douma and Jenneke M.A. Koksma -- Spontaneous activity and tactile pathways in the central nervous system of Lymnaea stagnalis / T.A. de Vlieger -- Sorting phenomena during the transport of shell valves on sandy beaches; studies with the use of artificial valves / J. Lever and R. Thijssen -- Britain's fauna of land Mollusca and its relation to the post-glacial thermal optimum / M.P. Kerney --
• Changes in the composition of land molluscan populations in north Wiltshire during the last 5000 years / J.G. Evans -- Habitat distribution of Solomon Island Mollusca / John F. Peake.

LCCN

68017680

OCLC

• ocm00564510
• 564510
• SCSB-5300355

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries