Ostracoda

References

Abele, L. G., T. Spears, W. Kim, and M. Applegate. 1992. Phylogeny of selected maxillopodan and other crustacean taxa based on 18S ribosomal nucleotide sequences: a preliminary analysis. Acta Zoologica 73:373-382.

Cohen, A. C., J. W. Martin, and L. S. Kornicker. 1998. Homology of Holocene ostracode biramous appendages with those of other crustaceans: the protopod, epipod, exopod and endopod. Lethaia 31:251-265.

Martin, J. W. and G. E. Davis. 2001. An updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series 39. Los Angeles, CA.

Morin, J. and A. Cohen. 1991. Bioluminescent displays, courtship, and reproduction in ostracods. Pages 1–16 in: Crustacean Sexual Biology. T. Bauer and J. Martin, eds. Columbia University

Press, New York.

Parker, A. R. 1995. Discovery of functional iridescence and its coevolution with eyes in the phylogeny of Ostracoda (Crustacea). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 262:349-355.

Smith, R. J. 2000. The morphology of the upper lip of Cypridoidea ostracods: taxonomic and phylogenetic significance. Hydrobiologia 418:169-184.

Vannier, J. and K. Abe. 1995. Size, body plan and respiration in the ostracoda. Palaeontology 38:843-873.

Vannier, J. and K. Abe. 1992. Recent and early Paleozoic myodocope ostracodes - functional-morphology, phylogeny, distribution and life-styles. Palaeontology 35:485-517.

Information on the Internet

• IRGO, the International Research Group on Ostracoda.
• Ostracod Research Group. NRI - Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Greenwich, UK.
• Arctic ostracode database. U. S. Geological Survey.
• Ostracods of Southern Australia.
• The Non-marine Ostracods (Ostracoda) of Southern Africa. Compiled by Koen Martens.
• Ostracodologists at UFRGS - Brazil.
• The Micropalaeontological Society.
• Ian Boomer's home page. Research on the use of microfossils (Ostracoda and Foraminifera) to record past environmental change.
• Anchialine Caves and Cave Fauna of the World