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Thisvolume presents a broad panorama of the current status of research ofinvertebrate animals considered belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, such as hydra, jellyfish, sea anemone, and coral. In this book the Cnidarians aretraced from the Earth's primordial oceans, to their response to the warming andacidifying oceans. Due to the role of corals in the carbon and calcium cycles,various aspects of cnidarian calcification are discussed. The relation of theCnidaria with Mankind is approached, in accordance with the Editors' philosophyof bridging the artificial schism between science, arts and Humanities. Cnidarians' encounters with humans result ina broad spectrum of medical emergencies that are reviewed. The final section ofthe volume is devoted to the role of Hydra and Medusa in mythology and art.
List of contents
Part 1 Genesis, Evolution, and Systematics.- Part 2Zoogeography.- Part 3 Calcification.- Part 4 Reproduction and PopulationEcology.- Part 5 Symbiosis. -Part 6 Immune system. -Part 7 Photobiology andCircadian Clock.- Part 8 Global Climate Change. -Part 9 Medical Aspects andApplications.- Part 10 Management and Conservation.- Part 11 In Myth and Art.
About the author
Dr. Stefano Goffredo is consolidating his
career. His scientific initiative promises to lead marine biology towards
integrative interdisciplinary syntheses. By extensive collaborations with
leaders in different fields, such as physics, chemistry, computational science
and photobiology SG developed multidisciplinary methodologies attacking the
questions identified by his field studies with novel laboratory tools. In his
research, SG has developed original aspects in the interpretation of
growth and population data,
population dynamics,
reproductive biology and
conservation
monitoring. Recently, he has expanded his interests to the
biomineralization in
relation to environmental parameters.
Prof. Emeritus Zvy Dubinsky of the Mina and Everard
Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences studies the response of the
photosynthetic apparatus of microalgae to the intensity and spectral
composition of underwaterirradiance and nutrient concentration. Dubinsky and
his team focus on three systems - Phytoplankton in the Red Sea, the
Mediterranean and Lake Kinneret; Zooxanthellae living as endosymbionts in reef
building corals; and algal mass cultures for the production of biodiesel and fine
chemicals.
Summary
This
volume presents a broad panorama of the current status of research of
invertebrate animals considered belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, such as hydra, jellyfish, sea anemone, and coral. In this book the Cnidarians are
traced from the Earth’s primordial oceans, to their response to the warming and
acidifying oceans. Due to the role of corals in the carbon and calcium cycles,
various aspects of cnidarian calcification are discussed. The relation of the
Cnidaria with Mankind is approached, in accordance with the Editors’ philosophy
of bridging the artificial schism between science, arts and Humanities. Cnidarians' encounters with humans result in
a broad spectrum of medical emergencies that are reviewed. The final section of
the volume is devoted to the role of Hydra and Medusa in mythology and art.
