Hydrobiologia The International Journal of Aquatic Sciences Volume 538, 1 April 2005 Special Issue Evolution and Diversity of Ostracoda Guest Editors N. Ikeya, A. Tsukagoshi & D.J. Horne Preface: The Phylogeny, fossil record and ecological diversity of ostracod crustaceans N. Ikeya, A. Tsukagoshi, D.J. Horne vii—xiii Origin of the Ostracoda and their maxillopodan and hexapodan affinities W.A. Newman Functional morphology of Palaeozoic ostracods: phylogenetic implications G. Becker Homology and homoeomorphy in ostracod limbs D.J. Horne Phylogeny and evolution of Loxoconcha (Ostracoda, Crustacea) species around Japan T. Ishii, T. Kamiya, A. Tsukagoshi Histological peculiarities of the noding process in Cyprideis torosa (Jones) (Crustacea, Ostracoda) D. Keyser 95-106 First record of ostracods (Crustacea) in Baltic amber D. Keyser, W. Weitschat 107-114 A revised classification of the higher taxa of the Ostracoda (Crustacea) A. Liebau 115-137 Phosphatocopina — ostracode-like sister group of Eucrustacea A. Maas, D. Waloszek 139-152 Molecular and morphological phylogeny of the ancient asexual Darwinulidae (Crustacea, Ostracoda) K. Martens, G. Rossetti, R.K. Butlin, |. Schon 153-165 Habitat diversity and ostracod distribution patterns in Belarus L. Nagorskaya, D. Keyser 167-178 vi Myodocopa (Crustacea: Ostracoda) as models for evolutionary studies of light and vision: multiple origins of bioluminescence and extreme sexual dimorphism T.H. Oakley 179-192 The question of cosmopolitanism in the deep-sea ostracod fauna: the example of the genus Pedicythere E.1. Schornikov 193-215 The ontogeny of the entocytherid ostracod Uncinocythere occidentalis (Kozloff & Whitman, 1954) Hart, 1962 (Crustacea) R.J. Smith, T. Kamiya 217-229 Morphological design and fossil record of the podocopid ostracod naupliar eye G. Tanaka 231-242 Taxonomy, morphology and speciation of the Semicytherura henryhowei group (Crustacea, Ostracoda) S. Yamada, A. Tsukagoshi, N. Ikeya 243-265 EV) ae online www.springerlink.com