Literature relating to invertebrate myelin

General reviews etc

• Friedländer, B. 1889. "Über die markhaltigen Nervenfasern und Neurochorde der Crustaceen und Anneliden." Mitt. Zool. Sta. Neapel 9: 205-265.
• Roots, B.I. 1984. "Evolutional aspects of the structure and function of the nodes of Ranvier." In: Zagoren, JC, Fedoroff S (eds) The Node of Ranvier. Academic Press, Orlando, pp 1-29
• Waehneldt, T.V. 1990. "Phylogeny of myelin proteins." Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 605 15-28.
• Roots, B.I. 1993. "The evolution of myelin." Adv. neural Sci. 1: 187-213
• Roots, B.I. 1995. "The evolution of myelinating cells." In A.Vernadakis and B. Roots, (eds) Neuron-Glia Interrelations During Phylogeny: I. Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Glial Cells. Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ.
• Schweigreiter, R., B.I. Roots, C.E. Bandtlow, and R.M. Gould. 2006. "Understanding myelination through studying its evolution." Int. Rev. Neurobiol. 73: 219-73.
• Hartline, D.K. and D. Colman 2007. "Rapid conduction and the evolution of giant axons and myelinated fibers" Curr. Biol. 17: R29-R35 . or [PDF].
• Roots, B.I. 2009. The phylogeny of invertebrates and the evolution of myelin. Neuron Glia Biol. 4(2): 101-109. (Abstract)
• Hartline, D.K. 2009 "What is myelin?" Neuron Glia Biol. 4(2): 153-163

Oligochaete myelin

• Hama, K. 1959. "Some observations on the fine structure of the giant nerve fibers of the earth worm Eisenia foetida." J. biophys. biochem Cytol. 6: 61-66.
• Levi, J.U., R.R. Cowden, and G.H. Collins 1966. "The microscopic anatomy and ultrastructure of the nervous system of the earthworm (Lumbricus sp.) with emphasis on the relationship between glial cells and neurons." J. comp. Neurol. 127: 489-510.
• Günther, J. 1976. "Impulse conduction in the myelinated giant fibers of the earthworm. Structure and function of the dorsal nodes in the median giant fiber." J. Comp. Neurol. 168: 505-532.
• Roots, B. I., and N. J. Lane. 1983. "Myelinating glia of earthworm giant axons: thermally induced intramembranous changes." Tissue and Cell 15: 695-709.
• Pereyra, P.M. and B.I. Roots 1988. "Isolation and initial characterization of myelin-like membrane fractions from the nerve cord of earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris L)." Neurochem. Res. 13: 893-901.
• M.J. Zoran, C.D. Drewes, C.R. Fourtner, and A.J. Siegel.1988. "The lateral giant fibers of the tubificid worm, Branchiura sowerbyi: Structural and functional asymmetry in a paired interneuronal system. J. comp. Neurol. 275: 76-86.
• Roots, B.I., B. Cardone, and P. Pereyra 1991. "Isolation and characterization of the myelin-like membranes ensheathing giant axons in the earthworm nerve cord." Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 633: 559-561.

Polychaete myelin

• Nicol, J.A.C. 1948. "The giant axons of annelids." Quart. Rev. Biol. 23: 291-323. [note: the myelination of polychaete axons identified in light microscopy has failed to be confirmed (so far) by electron microscopy]

Copepod myelin

• Lowe E 1935. "On the anatomy of a marine copepod, Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus)". Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. 58: 560-603.
• Davis A.D., T.M. Weatherby, D.K. Hartline, P.H. Lenz. 1999 "Myelin-like sheaths in copepod axons." Nature 398: 571
• Lenz P.H., D.K. Hartline, A.D. Davis 2000. "The need for speed. I. Myelinated axons and fast reaction times in copepods." J. Comp. Physiol. A submitted
• Weatherby, T.M., A.D. Davis, D.K. Hartline and P.H. Lenz 2000. "The need for speed. II. Myelin in calanoid copepods." J. comp. Physiol. A 186: 347-357.

Malacostracan myelin (shrimp etc.)

Penaeid shrimp myelin

• Fan, S.F., K. Hsu, F.S. Chen, and B. Hao 1961. "On the high conduction velocity of the giant nerve fiber of shrimp Penaeus orientalis." Kexue Tongbao 12(4): 51-52.
• Huang, S-K, Y. Yeh and K. Hsu. 1963. "A microscopic and electron microscopic investigation of the myelin sheath of the nerve fiber of Penaeus orientalis". Acta Physiol. Sinica 26(1): 39-42.
• Hama, K. 1966. "The fine structure of the Schwann cell sheath of the nerve fiber in the shrimp (Penaeus japonicus)." J. Cell Biol. 31: 624-632
• Hsu, K. and S. Terakawa 1996. "Fenestration in the myelin sheath of nerve fibers of the shrimp: A novel node of excitation for saltatory conduction." J. Neurobiol. 30: 397-409
• Kusano, K. 1966. "Electrical activity and structural correlates of giant nerve fibers in Kuruma shrimp (Penaeus japonicus)." J. Cell Physiol. 68: 361-384
• Kusano, K. and M.M. LaVail. 1971. "Impulse conduction in the shrimp medullated giant fiber with special reference to the structure of functionally excitable areas." J. comp. Neurol. 142: 481-494.
• Nonell, J.G. and A.L.H. Aguilar 1986. "Ultrastructura de los nudos de Ranvier en fibras nerviosas mielinizadas del camaron Penaeus." Rev. Biol. Trop. 34: 115-121.
• Terakawa, S. and K. Hsu. 1991. "Ionic currents of the nodal membrane underlying the fastest saltatory conduction in myelinated giant nerve fibers of the shrimp Penaeus japonicus." J. Neurobiol. 22: 342-352.
• Xu K and Terakawa S. 1999. "Fenestration nodes and the wide submyelinic space form the basis for the unusually fast impulse conduction of shrimp myelinated axons." J. Exp. Biol. 202: 1979-1989

Caridean shrimp myelin

• Holmes, W., R.J. Pumphrey and J.Z. Young 1941. "The structure and conduction velocity of the medullated nerve fibers of prawns." J. exp. Biol. 18: 50-54.
• Holmes, W. 1942. "The giant myelinated nerve fibers of the prawn." Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 231: 293-314.
• Heuser, J. E. and C. F. Doggenweiler. 1966. The fine structural organization of nerve fibers, sheaths and glial cells in the prawn, Palaemonetes vulgaris. J. Cell Biol. 30: 381-403.
• Govind CK and J. Pearce 1988. "Remodeling of nerves during claw reversal in adult snapping shrimps." J. Comp. Neurol. 268: 121-130.

Myelin in other malacostraca

• *Nageotte, J. 1916. "Notes sur les fibres à myeline et sur les étranglements de Ranvier chez certains crustacés." C.R. Soc. Biol. Paris 79 259-263.
• *Retzius, G. 1888. "Ueber myelinhaltige Nervenfasern bei Evertebraten." Biol. Föreningens Förhandlinger I: 58-62.