Turbellarian taxonomic database

Convolutriloba longifissura Notes


Gschwentner R, Baric S, Rieger R 2002 (citation)- New species and description of Symsagittifera corsicae; study
of formation and function of sagittosysts; body-wall musculature, morphological features and 18S rDNA
sequencing.  Discusses other species including: Symsagittifera sagittifera, Symsagittifera bifoveolata,
Praesagittifera shikoki, Convolutriloba longifissura, Symsagittifera poenicea.  

Gschwentner R, Ladurner P, Nimeth K, Rieger R 2001 (citation)- stem cells (neoblasts) analysis in stages of cell
cycle in Convolutriloba longifissura.  Relation to reproduction and regeneration.  Importance in phylogenetic
relationships.

Akesson B, Gschwentner R, Hendelberg J, Ladurner P, Mueller J, Rieger R 2001 (citation)- "new pattern of
reproduction in the Acoela has prompted us to review the various ways by which asexual
reproduction occurs in the group."  Type of fission of Convolutriloba longifissura is described. 
Evolutionary significance.
 

Gschwentner R, Ladurner P, Salvenmosr W, Rieger RM, Tyler S 1999 (citation)- "structure and evolutionary
significance of sagittocysts of Convolutriloba longifissura".

Bartolomaeus T, Balzer I 1997 (citation)- New species, Convolutriloba longifissura, described and first
description of longitudinal fission in Plathhelminthes.

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