Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, Curator, Zoological Museum and Institute, University of Hamburg,Steffen Harzsch, Professor of Cytology and Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, University of Greifswald,Gunter Purschke, Professor of Zoology and Developmental Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Osnabruck

Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa studied biology at the universities in Giessen and Gottingen, Germany, where he received his PhD in 1996, working on the ultrastructure and phylogeny of horsehair worms (Nematomorpha). As postdoc, he worked in Jim Garey's lab at the Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and at the University of South Florida in Tampa, USA on molecular systematics of nematomorphs. Between 1998 and 2004 he was scientific assistant in the working group of Thomas Bartolomaeus at the University of Bielefeld, where he then did a postdoc between 2004 and 2007. Since April 2007 he has been Curator for Lower Invertebrates at the Zoological Museum of the University of Hamburg. His research interests include animal morphology and systematics, with particular interest in the taxa Nematomorpha, Gastrotricha and Priapulida.

Steffen Harzsch obtained his PhD from the University of Bielefeld, Germany in 1995 working on neurogenesis in crustacean larvae at the Department of Neurobiology and in the lab of Klaus Anger at the Marine Biological Station on the island of Helgoland in the North Sea. After a postodc at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and a Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation, he worked from 2007 to 2008 as a group leader for neuroanatomy in the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany. In 2009, he received tenure as a full Professor of Cytology and Evolutionary Biology at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany. His expertise is in studies on neurophylogeny and NeuroEvoDevo of arthropods and Chaetognatha.

Gunter Purschke, Professor at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany, is working on morphology, systematics, phylogeny and evolution of Annelida and related taxa. His research interests currently focus on evolution and diversity of photoreceptor cells and eyes, of the central nervous system and body wall musculature. He studied biology and chemistry at the University of Gottingen, and earned his PhD in Zoology in 1984. He was subsequently assistant at the University of Osnabrueck to the chair of Systematic Zoology (Prof. W. Westheide). After having received the venia legendi for Zoology (1997) he was appointed as extraordinary professor in 2002. Since 2004 he has been working with the chair of Zoology and Developmental Biology (Professor A. Paululat).

Detlev Arendt, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Barbara Batelle, University of Florida, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, Florida, USA

Patrick Beckers, University of Bonn, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Bonn, Germany

Barbara S .Beltz, Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA

Jeannie Benton, Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA

Natalia M. Biserova, Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Moscow, Russia

Christoph Bleidorn, University of Leipzig, Molecular Evolution and Animal Systematics, Leipzig, Germany

Georg Brenneis, Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute for Biology, Berlin, Germany

Roger P. Croll, Dalhousie University, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Halifax, Canada

Lucia Epherra, Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT), Puerto Madryn, Argentina

Nathan Farrar, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Martin Fritsch, University of Vienna, Department of Integrative Zoology, Vienna, Austria

Jose E.García-Arrarás, University of Puerto Rico, Department of Biology, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Alexander Gruhl, Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Department of Symbiosis, Bremen, Germany

Bill S. Hansson, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department for Evolutionary Neuroethology, Jena, Germany

Volker Hartenstein, University of California, Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Los Angeles, USA

Steffen Harzsch, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Zoological Institute and Museum, Greifswald, Germany

Andreas Hejnol, University of Bergen, Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway

Conrad Helm, University of Leipzig, Molecular Evolution and Animal Systematics, Leipzig, Germany

Rick Hochberg, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA

Uwe Homberg, Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Biology, Marburg, Germany

Adrian Horridge, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Marie Hörnig, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Zoological Institute and Museum, Greifswald, Germany

Alen Kristof, University of Vienna, Department of Integrative Zoology, Vienna, Austria

Thurston Lacalli, University of Victoria, Biology Department, Victoria, Canada

Thomas Leitz, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Tobias Lehmann, Zoologische Staatssammlung, München, Germany and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department Biology II, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Sally P. Leys, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Carsten Lüter, Museum für Naturkunde (Natural History Museum), Berlin, Germany

Anastassya S. Maiorova, Far Eastern Federal University, A. V. Zhirmunsky Institute for Marine Biology, Vladivostok, Russia

Lucia Manni, University of Padova, Department of Biology, Padova, Italy

Mark Q. Martindale, The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, St. Augustine, Florida, USA

Vladimir Mashanov, University of Puerto Rico, Department of Biology, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Georg Mayer, University Leipzig, Institute for Biology, Leipzig, Germany

Roland R. Melzer, Zoologische Staatssammlung, München, Germany

Peter Michalik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Zoological Institute and Museum, Greifswald, Germany

Carsten H.G. Müller, University of Arizona, Department of Neuroscience, Tucson, USA

Ricardo Neves, University of Basel, Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland

Roberta Pennati, University of Milan, Department of Biosciences, Milan, Italy

Yvan Perez, Aix-Marseille Université, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie, Marseille, France

Dennis Persson, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Günter Purschke, University Osnabrueck, Department Biology/Chemistry, Osnabrück, Germany

Heinrich Reichert, University of Basel, Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland

Stefan Richter, University Rostock, Allgemeine & Spezielle Zoologie, Rostock, Germany

Nadia Riebli, University of Basel, Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland

Jörg Rosenberg, Soest, Germany

Birgen Holger Rothe, Halle, Germany

Tamara Rubilar, Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT), Puerto Madryn, Argentina

Jürgen Rybak, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department for Evolutionary Neuroethology, Jena, Germany

Silke Sachse, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, Department for Evolutionary Neuroethology, Jena, Germany

David C.Sandeman, Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA

Manfred Schmidt, Georgia State University, Neuroscience Institute, Atlanta, USA

Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, University Hamburg, Centrum für Naturkunde, Hamburg, Germany

Gerhard Scholtz, Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute for Biology, Berlin, Germany

Corinna Schulze, Hanau, Germany

Thomas Schwaha, University of Vienna, Department of Integrative Zoology, Vienna, Austria

Henrike Semmler Le, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Julia D. Sigwart, Queen's University Belfast, Marine Laboratory, Portaferry, N. Ireland

David K. Simmons, The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, St. Augustine, Florida, USA

Carmen R.Smarandache-Wellmann, University of Cologne, Zoological Institute, Cologne, Germany

Andy Sombke, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Zoological Institute and Museum, Greifswald, Germany

Thomas Stach, Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute for Biology, Berlin, Germany

Carola Städele, Ulm University, Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm, Germany

Martin Stegner, University Rostock, Allgemeine & Spezielle Zoologie, Rostock, Germany

Wolfgang Stein, Illinois State University, School of Biological Sciences, Normal, USA

Torben Stemme, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Division of Cell Biology, Hannover, Germany

Angelika Stollewerk, Queen Mary University of London, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, London, UK

Nicholas J.Strausfeld, University of Arizona, Department of Neuroscience, Tucson, USA

Lauren H. Sumner-Rooney, Queen's University Belfast, Marine Laboratory, Portaferry, N. Ireland

Elena Temereva, Moscow State University, Invertebrate Zoology, Moscow, Russia

Jörn Von Döhren, University of Bonn, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Bonn, Germany

Elena E.Voronezhskaya, Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Andreas Wanninger, University of Vienna, Department of Integrative Zoology, Vienna, Austria

Eric Warrant, University of Lund, Lund Vision Group, Department of Biology, Lund, Sweden

Harald Wolf, Ulm University, Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm, Germany

Gabriella Wolff, University of Arizona, Department of Neuroscience, Tucson, USA

Tim Wollesen, University of Vienna, Department of Integrative Zoology, Vienna, Austria

Olga Zueva, University of Puerto Rico, Department of Biology, San Juan, Puerto Rico

"This is an important, up-to-date, and highly useful summary of comparative neuroanatomy among the invertebrates, by 78 of the worlds top neuroanatomists. How I wish this book had been available while writing my own invertebrate textbooks.The volume by Schmidt- Rhaesa et al. belongs in every invertebrate zoologists library. It will stand the test of time." -- Richard C. Brusca, The Quarterly Review of Biology