Spirobranchus sisanteus is a tropical serpulid (Annelida, Polychaeta, Serpulidae, sub-family Serpulines) (Grasse, 1959), of common occurrence throughout the British West Indies. The species has been reported from the Caribbean by Ehlers (1887) and Hullin (1923) and recently vas collected in Jamaica and Barbados by Marsden and desoribed by her in some detail (Marsden, 1900). The author became interested in two aspects of Spirobranchus giganteus: neurosecretion, and the eoological diversity shown by the Barbados population of the serpulid. Neurosecretion in the invertebrates is a relatively new field of research, of which polychaete neurosecretory investigation is a thriving branch. However, there was found in the literature only one reference to neurosecretion in serpulids. Studies to determine whether Spirobranohus sisanteus exhibits neurosecretory activity therefore held great interest for the author. / fr
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.77433 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Pocock, Dorothy Margaret Elaine. |
| Contributors | Dr. Joan Marsden |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Zoology) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | 3342123, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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