Table of Contents

Part 1 Overview of sea anemones: relationships and body plan; the hydrostatic skeleton, muscles and mesoglea; nervous system; sensory receptors; Cnidae; why aren't there any colonial sea anemones?. Part 2 Nutrition: feeding; extracellular digestion; intracellular digestion; translocation and storage; symbiosis and unicellular algae; photobiology. Part 3 Energy metabolism and respiratory gas exchange: cellular basis of glycolysis and aerobic respiration; anaerobic energy metabolism; rates of energy metabolism; respiratory sunstrates and energetic equivalents of oxygen consumption; gas exchange surfaces, their pemeabilty to oxygen and their ventilation; factors affecting oxygen consumption. Part 4 Nitrogen excretion and osmotic balance: nitrogen excretion; osmocomformity and cellular volume regulation; water balance during aerial exposure. Part 5 Growth: units and measurement; biochemical composition and energetic equivalents of body weight; growth efficiency; growth rate; do sea anemones grow isometrically or allometrically?; indeterminant growth and determinants of body size - the model; environmental effects on growth and body size - the reality. Part 6 Reproduction and population structure: sexual reproduction; asexual reproduction; population structure. Part 7 Biotic interactions: competition;ectosymbiosis; predation on sea anemones. Appendix: classification of extant anthozoans, particularly sea anemones.