D.T.J. Littlewood, R.A. Bray (Eds.): Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes.

Book Review: Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes

Interrelationships and evolution of the tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda).

Interrelationships of the tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda) were examined by use of small (SSU) and large (LSU) subunit ribosomal DNA sequences and morphological characters. Fifty new complete SSU sequences were added to 21 sequences previously determined, and 71 new LSU (D1-D3) sequences were determined for the complementary set of taxa representing each of the major lineages of cestodes as...

Review of "Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 3" by Rodney A. Bray, David I. Gibson and Arlene Jones (eds.)

The volume includes five superfamilies of the Order Plagiorchiida (Gorgoderoidea Looss, 1899; Microphalloidea Ward, 1901; Monorchioidea Odhner, 1911; Opisthorchioidea Looss, 1899; and Plagiorchioidea Lühe, 1901) and the family Didymozoidae Monticelli, 1888 of the Order Strigeida which was omitted from Volume 1. As in the previous volumes, the core of the book (59 chapters covering 618 genera) p...

Review of “Jack, Hall-Littlewood and Macdonald polynomials”, V. B. Kuznetsov and S. Sahi (eds.)

The book under review contains the Proceedings of a Workshop held in 2003 in Edinburgh, UK. This workshop paid attention to (in fact, celebrated) the pioneering work by the mathematicians Henry Jack, Philip Hall and D. E. Littlewood on two new families of symmetric polynomials, and to the magnificent job done by Ian Macdonald to bring these two classes of polynomials together in a more general ...

Platyhelminthes

Platyhelminthes (flatworms) have captivated the imagination of biologists for centuries. Indeed, planarian flatworms were used as experimental models decades before Caenorhabditis elegans became known as 'the worm'. Although planarians experienced a brief fall from grace, with the advent of molecular tools, planarians, such as Schmidtea mediterranea, have emerged in recent years as powerful mod...