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Author: John M. Archibald Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9783319281476 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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Published in a modern, user-friendly format this fully revised and updated edition of The Handbook of Protoctista (1990) is the resource for those interested in the biology, diversity and evolution of eukaryotic microorganisms and their descendants, exclusive of animals, plants and fungi. With chapters written by leading researchers in the field, the content reflects the present state of knowledge of the cell and genome biology, evolutionary relationships and ecological/medical/economic importance each major group of protists, organized according to current protist systematics as informed by molecular phylogenetics and genomics.
Author: John M. Archibald Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9783319281476 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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Published in a modern, user-friendly format this fully revised and updated edition of The Handbook of Protoctista (1990) is the resource for those interested in the biology, diversity and evolution of eukaryotic microorganisms and their descendants, exclusive of animals, plants and fungi. With chapters written by leading researchers in the field, the content reflects the present state of knowledge of the cell and genome biology, evolutionary relationships and ecological/medical/economic importance each major group of protists, organized according to current protist systematics as informed by molecular phylogenetics and genomics.
Author: W. Foissner Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9048128013 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 213
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Conservation and biodiversity of protists The conservation of biodiversity is not just an issue of plants and vertebrates. It is the scarcely visible invertebrates and myriads of other microscopic organisms that are crucial to the maintenance of ecological processes on which all larger organisms and the composition of the atmosphere ultimately depend. Biodiversity and Conservation endeavours to take an holistic view of biodiversity, and when the opportunity arises to issue collections of papers dealing with too-often neglected groups of organisms. The protists, essentially eukaryotes that cannot be classi?ed in the kingdoms of animals, fungi, or plants, include some of the lea- known groups of organisms on earth. They are generally treated as a separate kingdom, commonly named Protista (or Protoctista) in textbooks, but in reality they are a mixture of organisms with disparate a?nities. Some authors have hypothesized that the numbers of protists are not especially large, and that many have extraordinarily wide distributions. However, the p- ture that unfolds from the latest studies discussed in this issue is di?erent. There are many species with wide ranges, and proportionately more cosmopolitan species than in macroorganism groups, as a result of their long evolutionary histories, but there are also de?nite patterns and geographical restrictions to be found. Further, some protists are linked to host organisms as mutualists or parasites and necessarily con?ned to the distributions of their hosts.
Author: John Archibald Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191636274 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 220
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We are in the midst of a revolution. It is a scientific revolution built upon the tools of molecular biology, with which we probe and prod the living world in ways unimaginable a few decades ago. Need to track a bacterium at the root of a hospital outbreak? No problem: the offending germ's complete genetic profile can be obtained in 24 hours. We insert human DNA into E. coli bacteria to produce our insulin. It is natural to look at biotechnology in the 21st century with a mix of wonder and fear. But biotechnology is not as 'unnatural' as one might think. All living organisms use the same molecular processes to replicate their genetic material and the same basic code to 'read' their genes. The similarities can be seen in their DNA. Here, John Archibald shows how evolution has been 'plugging-and-playing' with the subcellular components of life from the very beginning and continues to do so today. For evidence, we need look no further than the inner workings of our own cells. Molecular biology has allowed us to gaze back more than three billion years, revealing the microbial mergers and acquisitions that underpin the development of complex life. One Plus One Equals One tells the story of how we have come to this realization and its implications.
Author: Lynn Margulis Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning ISBN: 9780867200812 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 514
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For researchers, teachers, and students who deal with eukaryotic microorganisms, this comprehensive guide contains current information on the protoctists and their descendants (exclusive of the animals, fungi, and plants). It represents an illustrated abbreviated version of Handbook of Protoctista (Jones & Bartlett, 1990). Extensively illustrated with drawings, light and electron micrographs, and includes photographs of leading contributors to protoctist research. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Author: Stefan Geisen Publisher: Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG ISBN: 9783838151571 Category : Languages : en Pages : 328
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Protists are by far the most diverse and abundant eukaryotes in soils. Nevertheless, very little is known about individual representatives, the diversity and community composition and ecological functioning of these important organisms. For instance, soil protists are commonly lumped into a single functional unit, i.e. bacterivores. This work tackles missing knowledge gaps on soil protists and common misconceptions using multi-methodological approaches including cultivation, microcosm experiments and environmental sequencing. In a first part, several new species and genera of amoeboid protists are described showing their immense unknown diversity. In the second part, the enormous complexity of soil protists communities is highlighted using cultivation- and sequence-based approaches. In the third part, the present of diverse mycophagous and nematophagous protists are shown in functional studies on cultivated taxa and their environmental importance supported by sequence-based approaches. This work is just a start for a promising future of soil Protistology that is likely to find other important roles of these diverse organisms.
Author: Klaus Hausmann Publisher: ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 400
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This textbook on Protistology provides an excellent information source for a broad audience ranging from students of advanced university courses to senior scientists, for the study of parasitic and/or pathogenic microorganisms; lavishly and unsurpassedly illustrated with about 800 single micrographs, line drawings and diagrams allowing an overwhelming insight into the architectural variety of unicellular creatures and their dynamical properties. The pivotal ecological roles unicellular organisms play in the bionomics of life on earth, at present and in the past as well as the phylogenetic relationships between unicellular and multicellular organisms are thoroughly explained.
Author: Sina M. Adl Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 032395300X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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Protistology provides a comprehensive overview on recent developments in understanding the diversity of cell biology, genomic processes, parasite-host interactions, and the evolution of eukaryotes. The book is the first modern treatise on these organisms, walking readers through protistology's diversity and classification. This book is an ideal supplemental text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in microbial ecology, freshwater and marine biology, soil ecology, environmental sciences, or those looking to initiate a course in protistology. - Covers the entire breadth of protists, including numerous illustrations, photographs and figures - Provides an accessible, modern classification of protists - Presents comparative cell biology and evolutionary trends in the diversity of protists
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