THE NEW PANORAMA OF ANIMAL EVOLUTION Proceedings XVIII International Congress of Zoology

Contents......Page 6
Preface of the Editorial Committee......Page 12
Chairman’s opening remarks......Page 13
Secretary’s opening remarks......Page 16
Invited lectures......Page 18
A General Review of Zoological Trends During the 20th Century......Page 20
On Species and Speciation......Page 32
Aristotle: Descriptor Animalium Princeps!......Page 36
The Persistent Progression: a New View on Animal Evolution......Page 44
The new paleontological panorama......Page 58
Introduction: The new paleontological panorama......Page 60
Fossils, developmental patterning and the origin of tetrapods......Page 62
Feathered dinosaurs and the origin of birds......Page 72
Evolution of Dental Capability in Western Eurasian Large Mammal Plant-Eaters 22-2 Million Years Ago: A Case for Environmental Forcing Mediated by Biotic Processes......Page 78
Cambrian ‘Orsten’-type preserved Arthropods and the Phylogeny of Crustacea......Page 86
Cambrian arthropods: a lesson in convergent evolution......Page 106
Molecular macroevolution......Page 114
The urmetazoa: Molecular biological studies with living fossils......Page 116
The integrative approach in zoological evolution......Page 122
Evolutionary dynamics of host plant range in the butterfly tribe Nymphalini (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)......Page 124
Comparative Immunology of the animal kingdom......Page 132
Comparative Immunology of the Animal Kingdom......Page 134
Novel approaches for the analysis of immune reactions in Tunicate and Cnidarian model organisms......Page 144
Does Functional Similarity of Certain Innate Immune Mechanisms of Invertebrates and Vertebrates Point to their Phylogenetic Relation?......Page 150
State of the art for the immune system in leeches......Page 156
Comparison of Molecular Neuroimmune Processes Between Leeches and Human......Page 164
Bidirectional communication between the immune and neuroendocrine systems: an evolutionary perspective......Page 176
How do cells of the invertebrate immune systems kill other cells?......Page 184
Originality of the Mytilus (Bivalve Mollusc) antibacterial peptides: structurally related to Insects but involved as in Mammals......Page 194
Evolution as reflected in embryonic development......Page 202
Evolution of body axis segmentation in the bilaterian radiation......Page 204
The role of parasitism in animal evolution......Page 214
Behavioural, genetic and evolutionary interactions between cuckoos and their hosts......Page 216
Phenotypic Manipulation and Parasite-Mediated Host Evolution......Page 222
Parasites and the evolution of host life history traits......Page 230
Parasites and the evolution of cleaning symbioses among fish......Page 236
Host behaviour: the first line of defense......Page 244
TreeMap: an algorithm to maximize the number of codivergences when reconstructing the history of an associate and its host......Page 252
The Protozoa-Metazoa boundary......Page 258
Diverse perspectives on the Protozoan – Metazoan transition......Page 260
The phenotypic transition from uni- to multicellular animals......Page 264
From Famine to Feast: a context for the protozoan-metazoan transition......Page 276
Origin and Diversification of the Metazoa: Superorganisms among the Ediacarans......Page 286
The protozoan-metazoan boundary: a molecular biologist’s view......Page 294
Tracing metazoan roots in the fossil record......Page 306
Archaeozoology. Human-animal interactions as a tool for present and future......Page 318
Wild and domestic mammals in holocenic Sardinia......Page 320
People and animals in the early Neolithic in Central Europe. New approach to animal bones assemblages from farming settlements......Page 326
Benchmark events and key figures in 20th century Zoology......Page 336
Libbie Hyman and Invertebrate Zoology in the 20th Century......Page 338
Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the founding of ethology as a scientific discipline......Page 346
From scientific natural history to ecosystem research: changing roles of the animal in the history of animal ecology......Page 354
Hommage à Pierre-Paul Grassé
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The Invisible Subject: Zoology and the Evolutionary Synthesis......Page 368
Our evolving understanding of biodiversity through history and its impact on the recognition of higher taxa of Metazoa......Page 376
Willi Hennig and the Rise of Cladistics......Page 386
Diversity, endemism and conservation priorities in Madagascar......Page 398
Diversity, Endemism and Conservation Priorities in Madagascar......Page 400
The remarkable levels of diversity and endemicity in the scorpion fauna of Madagascar......Page 402
Biogeographic relations and life history characteristics of vertebrate communities in littoral forests of Madagascar......Page 410
The amphibians and reptiles of Madagascar: diversity, threats and conservation perspectives......Page 420
An integrative approach to the study of diversity and regional endemism in lemurs (Primates, Mammalia) and their conservation......Page 426
Comparative biology of sperm storage in ver......Page 436
Sperm Storage in the Class Chondrichthyes & Class Osteichthyes......Page 438
Sperm Storage in the Class Amphibia......Page 448
Sperm Storage in the Class Reptilia......Page 456
Oviducal Sperm Storage in Turkeys (Meleagris Gallopavo): The Infundibulum as a secondary Sperm Storage Site, or is it?......Page 464
Sperm Storage in the Class Mammalia......Page 468
Integrative approaches to phylogenetic relationships of arthropods......Page 476
Integrative approaches to phylogenetic relationships of arthropods: Introduction to the Symposium......Page 478
Comparative Morphology: Do the ultrastructural investigations of Loricifera and Tardigrada support the clade Ecdysozoa?......Page 484
Arthropods as ecdysozoans: the fossil evidence......Page 496
Is the taxon Articulata obsolete? Arguments in favour of a close relationship between annelids and arthropods......Page 506
Ecdysozoa: the evidence for a close relationship between arthropods and nematodes......Page 520
Zoological implications of the discovery of geothermally-driven communities......Page 528
Adaptations of hydrothermal vent organisms to their environment......Page 530
The role of symbiosis in physiology and evolution......Page 536
The Role of Symbiosis in Physiology and Evolution......Page 538
Wolbachia: Symbionts as Reproductive Parasites......Page 540
The weevil’s symbiocosm and its four intracellular genomes......Page 544
Characteristic features of the genome of an aphid endosymbiotic bacterium, Buchnera......Page 552
Integration of bacterial endosymbionts in amoebae......Page 558
Diversification and evolutionary Ecology......Page 566
Disclosure of songbird diversity in the Palearctic/Oriental transition zone......Page 568
Ways for improving modern zoological education......Page 576
Zoological Education in New Zealand: a 21st Century perspective......Page 578
A New Engine For a Holistic Zoology Education in the 21st Century......Page 586
The Crisis In Teaching Of Zoology: The Israeli Experience......Page 592
Ways for improving modern zoological education: overview of the session......Page 598
Coordinated development and use of collections databases......Page 600
Coordinated Development and Use of Collections Databases......Page 602
Evolutionary Paleontology and Informatics: The Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America (NMITA) Database......Page 608
The Register Of Collections Of European Marine Species: An Overview......Page 620
Use Them Or Lose Them: The Need to Make Collection Databases Publicly Available......Page 628
Distributed Information Systems and Predictive Biogeography: Putting Natural History Collections to Work in the 21st Century......Page 636
The taxonomic impediment, in search of a remedy action......Page 642
Remedies for the Taxonomic Impediment in Zoology......Page 644
The Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) and the International Congress on Zoology - a perspective on the role of the Convention on Biological Diversity and UNESCO......Page 648
Taxonomic impediment in the study of marine invertebrates......Page 654
A “Taxonomic Affidavit”. Why it is needed?......Page 660
The new International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and related issues......Page 664
Zoological nomenclature after the publication of the Fourth Edition of the Code......Page 666
Zoological Record – a bibliographic service and taxonomic resource......Page 676
Biological nomenclature in the electronic era: chances, challenges, risks......Page 682
The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 4th Edition - What Next?......Page 690
Still Desiderata: Scientific Names for Domestic Animals and Their Feral Derivatives......Page 700
Special presentations......Page 716
Neotropical Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use in São Paulo State (Brazil) - BIOTA/FAPESP - The Biodiversity Virtual Institute......Page 718
Species 2000 New Zealand: Outcomes of the February Symposium......Page 722
Large computer monographs in zoology - possibilities and perspective. Demonstration of a test case - “Salticidae (Araneae) of the World”......Page 728
New data on “satellite” fish species and their evolutionary significance......Page 732
List of Participants......Page 742
Index......Page 754