This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...in the details of its organisation, essentially resembles the embryos of the higher types. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. We will now pass on to give a general interpretation of some of the principal phenomena which are presented to us in the development of Amphioxus. Larval Asymmetry. By far the most prominent feature of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...in the details of its organisation, essentially resembles the embryos of the higher types. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. We will now pass on to give a general interpretation of some of the principal phenomena which are presented to us in the development of Amphioxus. Larval Asymmetry. By far the most prominent feature of the fully formed larva is its astounding asymmetry, and it is extremely important, from a morphological point of view, to form a just conception of it. The phenomenon of asymmetry manifests itself in the larva of Amphioxus under several very different aspects, and is occasioned by various causes. For convenience we may classify the forms of asymmetry which we have to consider under three main divisions, according to the type of organs involved. 1. Median Asymmetry.--This relates to such structures as lie normally in the middle line, whether dorsal or ventral, but which have been mechanically or correlatively displaced from their primitive position by the differential growth of neighbouring parts. Such are the olfactory pit and neuropore, the anus, the mouth, and the endostyle. All these are essentially and primordially median and unpaired structures. We have already dealt with the neuropore and anus, while the mouth and endostyle will be considered below. 2. Bilateral Asymmetry.--This refers to the alternation of paired structures, such as myotomes, spinal nerves, gillslits, and gonads, which we have already noted in the adult organisation. Primarily the organ of one side lies opposite to its antimere of the other side. By a secondary displacement it comes to alternate with it. 3. Unilateral Asymmetry.--Next to the asymmetrical mouth, this is perhaps the most striking form of asymmetry which the larva of Amphioxus exhibits. It relates to those st...
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