Table of Contents

1: Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, Steffen Harzsch and Günter Purschke: Introduction
2: Adrian Horridge: Perspective - How to write an Invertebrate Anatomy Book
3: Sally P. Leys and Nathan Farrar: Porifera
4: Detlev Arendt: Perspective - Evolution of neural cell types
5: Thomas Leitz: Cnidaria
6: David K. Simmons and Mark Q. Martindale: Ctenophora
7: Andreas Hejnol: Acoelomorpha
8: Thomas Stach: Xenoturbella
9: Heinrich Reichert and Nadia Riebli: Perspective -The first brain
10: Volker Hartenstein: Free living Plathelminthes
11: Natalia M. Biserova: Neodermata
12: Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa: Gnathostomulida
13: Rick Hochberg: Rotifera
14: Henrike Semmler Le: Acanthocephala
15: Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa and Birgen H. Rothe: Gastrotricha
16: Pat Beckers and Jörn van Döhren: Nemertini
17: Andreas Wanninger: Kamptozoa (Entoprocta)
18: Julia D. Sigwart and Lauren H. Sumner-Rooney: Mollusca: Caudofoveata, Monoplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Solenogastres
19: Andreas Wanninger: Mollusca: Bivalvia
20: Elena E. Voronezhskaya and Roger P. Croll: Mollusca: Gastropoda
21: Tim Wollesen: Mollusca: Cephalopoda
22: Conrad Helm and Christoph Bleidorn: Annelida: Myzostomida
23: Alen Kristof and Anastassya S. Maiorova: Annelida: Sipuncula
24: Günter Purschke: Annelida: Basal groups and Pleistoannelida
25: Stefan Richter, Thomas Stach and Andreas Wanninger: Perspective - Nervous system development in bilaterian larvae - testing the concept of 'primary larvae'
26: Alexander Gruhl and Thomas Schwaha: Bryozoa (Ectoprocta)
27: Carsten Lüter: Brachiopoda
28: Elena Temereva: Phoronida
29: Ricardo Neves: Cycliophora
30: Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa and Stephan Henne: Cycloneuralia
31: Corinna Schulze and Dennis Persson: Tardigrada
32: Georg Mayer: Onychophora
33: Gerhard Scholtz: Perspective - Heads and Brains in Arthropods: 40 years after the 'endless dispute'
34: Jürgen Rybak: Perspective - Brain Atlases for studying neuronal circuitry in arthropods
35: Georg Brenneis: Pycnogonida (Pantopoda)
36: Barbara Battelle, Andy Sombke and Steffen Harzsch: Xiphosura
37: Harald Wolf: Scorpiones
38: Tobias Lehmann, Roland R. Melzer, Marie Hörnig, Peter Michalik, Andy Sombke, and Steffen Harzsch: Arachnida (exkl. Scorpiones)
39: Andy Sombke and Jörg Rosenberg: Myriapoda
40: Angelika Stollewerk: Perspective - Evolution of neurogenesis in arthropods - open questions and future directions
41: D.C. Sandeman, J.L. Benton and B.S. Beltz: Research Spotlight - Adult neurogenesis in the decapod crustacean brain: The immune system supplies neural progenitors
42: Martin Stegner and Stephan Richter: Cephalocarida
43: Martin Fritsch and Stephan Richter: Maxillopoda and Branchiopoda
44: Torben Stemme and Steffen Harzsch: Remipedia
45: Manfred Schmidt: Malacostraca
46: Wolfgang Stein, Carola Städele and Carmen R. Smarandache-Wellmann: Perspective - Evolutionary aspects of motor control and coordination: the central pattern generators in the crustacean stomatogastric and swimmeret systems
47: Gabriella Wolff and Nicholas J. Strausfeld: Research Spotlight - The brain of Hexapoda
48: Silke Sachse and Bill S. Hansson: Research Spotlight - Olfactory coding in Drosophila melanogaster
49: Eric Warrant and Uwe Homberg: Research Spotlight - Insect polarisation vision: peripheral and central mechanisms
50: Steffen Harzsch, Ivan Perez and Carsten H.G. Müller: Chaetognatha
51: Vladimir Mashanov, Olga Zueva, Tamara Rubilar, Lucia Epherra and Jose E. García-Arrarás: Echinodermata
52: Thomas Stach: Hemichordata
53: Lucia Manni and Roberta Pennati: Tunicata
54: Thurston Lacalli and Thomas Stach: Acrania
55: Thurston Lacalli: Perspective - The Origin of Vertebrate Neural Organization

About the Author

Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa studied biology at the universities in Gießen and Göttingen, Germany, where he received his PhD in 1996, working on the ultrastructure and phylogeny of horsehair worms (Nematomorpha). As postdoc, he worked in Jim Garey´s lab at the Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and at the University of South Florida in Tampa, USA on molecular systematics of nematomorphs. Between 1998 and 2004 he was scientific assistant in the working
group of Thomas Bartolomaeus at the University of Bielefeld, where he then did a postdoc between 2004 and 2007. Since April 2007 he has been Curator for Lower Invertebrates at the Zoological Museum of the University of
Hamburg. His research interests include animal morphology and systematics, with particular interest in the taxa Nematomorpha, Gastrotricha and Priapulida. Steffen Harzsch obtained his PhD from the University of Bielefeld, Germany in 1995 working on neurogenesis in crustacean larvae at the Department of Neurobiology and in the lab of Klaus Anger at the Marine Biological Station on the island of Helgoland in the North Sea. After a postodc at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and a Heisenberg
Fellowship of the German Research Foundation, he worked from 2007 to 2008 as a group leader for neuroanatomy in the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
in Jena, Germany. In 2009, he received tenure as a full Professor of Cytology and Evolutionary Biology at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany. His expertise is in studies on neurophylogeny and NeuroEvoDevo of arthropods and Chaetognatha. Günter Purschke, Professor at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany, is working on morphology, systematics, phylogeny and evolution of Annelida and related taxa. His research interests currently focus on evolution and diversity of
photoreceptor cells and eyes, of the central nervous system and body wall musculature. He studied biology and chemistry at the University of Göttingen, and earned his PhD in Zoology in 1984. He was subsequently
assistant at the University of Osnabrueck to the chair of Systematic Zoology (Prof. W. Westheide). After having received the venia legendi for Zoology (1997) he was appointed as extraordinary professor in 2002. Since 2004 he has been working with the chair of Zoology and Developmental Biology (Professor A. Paululat).

Reviews

This is an important, up-to-date, and highly useful summary of comparative neuroanatomy among the invertebrates, by 78 of the worlds top neuroanatomists. How I wish this book had been available while writing my own invertebrate textbooks.The volume by Schmidt- Rhaesa et al. belongs in every invertebrate zoologists library. It will stand the test of time.
*Richard C. Brusca, The Quarterly Review of Biology*