| Citation | Professor D.T.Anderson is distinguished for his work on invertebrate embryology ranging from his superb accounts of several polychaetes to cynchophorans, pterygote insects, branchiopod and cirrepede crustaceans. This work has a functional approach and for the first time uses the concept of fate maps applied to the invertebrates. These methods, used on his own first hand studies and applied to the existing accounts of development throughout the annelids and arthropods, have given spectacular advances in our understanding of phylogeny and relationships in providing evidence that the Arthropoda are polypheletic. The investigation of reproduction and development of Australasian invertebrates forms an allied field. |