Ebook: Cell and Molecular Biology of Artemia Development

The brine shrimp Artemia has become an important experimental system for studies of the developmental process. In recent years the shrimp has yielded considerable information on the pattern of development, bio­ chemistry, and gene structure and expression of crustaceans. This book is a compilation of research activity from twenty five of the most active re­ search laboratories working with brine shrimp in the above areas. It also represents the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Montreal, Canada, August 11-13, 1988. The book contains twenty nine full papers covering the major areas discussed at the workshop. In addition, one page abstracts representing seventeen poster presentations which were given at the workshop, and which were deemed to be most relevant to the theme of the book, are included. These are designated with an [al in the Table of Contents following the title of each paper. A considerable amount of discussion which took place during the workshop has not been included in the book because of space limitations. However, the editors will endeavour to make some of this in­ formation available at a later date through the Artemia Newsletter. In addition to the high percentage of invited speakers who attended and contributed to the workshop, the organizers would like to thank a number of participants who made valuable contributions to the major dis­ cussion sessions. These include: John Freeman, Michael Horst, Herman Slegers, Jack Vaughn, Frank Conte, Sandy McLennan, Clive Trotman and Patrick Sorgeloos.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Aspects of the Anaerobic Metabolism of Artemia Cysts....Pages 1-15
Light-Induced Development of Artemia Cysts....Pages 17-28
Oxygen Binding in Artemia Hemolymph....Pages 29-45
Disruption of Artemia Development by Metals....Pages 47-54
Segment Morphogenesis in Artemia Larvae....Pages 55-55
Multiple Protease Inhibitors in Artemia Cysts....Pages 57-57
Effect of Starvation on Amylase and Trypsin Activities at Two Developmental Stages of Artemia (San Francisco)....Pages 59-76
Chitin Degrading Enzymes: Characteristics and Functions during Artemia Development....Pages 77-90
Regulation of Artemia Glycogen Phosphorylase: Effect of Diguanosine Nucleotides....Pages 91-98
Enzymes of Dinucleoside Oligophosphate Metabolism in Artemia Cysts and Larvae....Pages 99-129
Comparison of Diguanosine Polyphosphate Levels in Various Populations of Artemia Cysts....Pages 131-156
Phosphonate Analogues of Diadenosine Tetraphosphate as Substrates and Inhibitors of Artemia Dinucleoside Tetraphosphatase....Pages 157-169
Messenger Ribonucleoproteins of Cryptobiotic Gastrulae of Artemia: Mechanisms of Activation and Repression of Non-Polysomal Messenger Ribonucleoproteins....Pages 171-171
Kinetic and Thermodynamic Parameters of Artemia Ribosome Subunit Interactions: The Effects of Polyamines....Pages 173-189
Study of Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation in Artemia Embryos at Various Stages of Development....Pages 191-200
Ribosomal RNA Genes during Development in the Brine Shrimp Artemia: Structure, Expression and Evolution....Pages 201-201
Organization of 5S-Histone Genes in Different Artemia Populations....Pages 203-219
cDNA Cloning of Developmentally Regulated Artemia Genes....Pages 221-221
Functional and Structural Studies on Artemia Polypeptide Chain Initiation Factor 2. Cloning and Sequencing of eIF-2α cDNA....Pages 223-243
Isolation of cDNA Clones Coding for Artemia Type P ATPases....Pages 245-245
Structure and Expression during Development of Artemia c-ras Genes....Pages 247-255
Molecular Biology of Larval Osmoregulation....Pages 257-257
The Diversity of α-Tubulin during Artemia Prelarval Development....Pages 259-266
The Molecular Biology of Artemia Haemoglobins....Pages 267-274
The Structure of Artemia Hemoglobin and Hemoglobin Domains....Pages 275-275
Computer Utilization in Artemia Research....Pages 277-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-293
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