Salánki János (szerk.): Neurobiology of invertebrates. Mechanisms of rhytm regulation. Tihany, Aug. 2-5. 1972 - Neurobiology of invertebrates (Budapest, 1973)
NEUROBIOLOGY OF INVERTEBRATES MECHANISMS OF RHYTHM REGULATION Symposium at Tihany, 2-5 August, 1971 Edited by J. SALÁNKI Rhythmicity being one of the basic rules in living processes is investigated extensively also in invertebrates. Investigations on the regulatory mechanisms of basic processes in lower phyla very often result in discoveries important from a general biological point of view. This volume containing 33 papers and discussions delivered at a satellite symposium of the XXVth Congress of IUPS reports on recent research in the field of rhythm regulation. The issues of the papers cover primarily rhythmic phenomena, independent of external factors but based on structural and functional characteristics of cells, organs of the whole organism, i.e. endogenous rhythms. The book is divided into four main parts. The first consists of papers dealing with rhythms on cellular level analysing mainly the mechanisms of rhythmic firing in neurones. The second and third parts deal with rhythm appearing at organ level; the papers are focussed on the rhythmic functioning of the heart. The fourth part contains results on behavioural rhythms and their neural regulation in the whole organism. The material is particularly interesting from a comparative physiological point of view, as a number of different species — Vermes, Gastropoda, Felecypoda, Crustacea and Insecta — were investigated by specialists of 14 countries attending the Symposium. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest