Symbiosis : mechanisms and model systems /

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Imprint:Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002.
Description:xxx, 796 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cellular origin and life in extreme habitats ; v. 4
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4719794
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Other authors / contributors:Seckbach, J. (Joseph)
ISBN:1402001894 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of authors and their addresses
  • Legends for the cover photos
  • I.. General Aspects
  • Prioritizing Symbiosis to Sustain Biodiversity: Are Symbionts Keystone Species?
  • Morphological Aspects of Symbiosis
  • Symbioses and Their Consequences for Community and Applied Ecology
  • II.. Origin & Evolution
  • What's in a Tree? Does Horizontal Gene Transfer Determine Microbial Taxonomy?
  • The Commonality of Cyanobacterial Endosymbioses Does Not Support the Endosymbiotic Theory for Origin of Eukaryotic Organelles
  • Non Symbiotic Origin of Locomotory Organelles
  • The Cyanelle (Muroplast) of Cyanophora Paradoxa: A Paradigm for Endosymbiotic Organelle Evolution
  • The Syntrophy Hypothesis for the Origin of Eukaryotes
  • Thermodynamic Ecology of Hydrogen-Based Syntrophy
  • Nutritional Syntrophies and Consortia as Models for the Origin of Mitochondria
  • Reversion of Endosymbiosis? The Case of Bleaching in Euglena
  • Symbiosomes
  • The Absence of Nitrogen-Fixing Organelles Due to Timing of the Nitrogen Crisis
  • Nucleus Symbiosis Hypothesis: Formation of Eukaryotic Cell Nuclei by the Symbiosis of Archaea in Bacteria
  • III.. Bacteria, Cyanobacteria & Algae
  • Phototrophic Consortia: A Tight Cooperation Between Non-Related Eubacteria
  • Structure and Phylogeny of Cyanophora Species
  • The Microenvironment and Photosynthetic Performance of Prochloron sp. in Symbiosis with Didemnid Ascidians
  • IV.. Fungi Symbiosis
  • Survival Strategies in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbionts
  • Three Part Harmony--Ascophyllum and its Symbionts
  • Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Their Endobacteria
  • V.. Lichens
  • Origin and Evolution of Green Lichen Algae
  • Lichenization of the Trentepohliales
  • Trebouxia: Reflections on a Perplexing and Controversial Lichen Photobiont
  • VI.. Symbiosis in Plants
  • Algae Living on Trees and in Other Strange Places
  • Cycad Coralloid Roots Housing Cyanobacteria
  • Evolution of Epichloe/Neotyphodium Endophytes and Other Clavicipitalean Biotrophs
  • The Effect of Endophytic Fungi on Host Plant Morphogenesis
  • VII.. Association with Protozoa
  • Anaerobic Ciliates and Their Methanogenic Endosymbionts
  • Endosymbiosis of Beta-Proteobacteria in Trypanosomatid Protozoa
  • Ectosymbiosis in Ciliated Protozoa
  • Living Sands: Symbiosis Between Foraminifera and Algae
  • Protistan-Prokaryotic Symbioses in Deep-Sea Sulfidic Sediments
  • VIII.. Symbiosis in Insects and Higher Animals
  • Sponge/Algal Symbioses: A Diversity of Associations
  • The Taxonomy and Evolution of the Zooxanthellae-Coral Symbiosis
  • Algal Symbiosis in Flatworms
  • Trichomycetes: Fungi in Relationship with Insects and Other Arthropods
  • Evolution of Ascomycota-Arthropoda Symbioses
  • The Laboulbeniales--An Enigmatic Group of Arthropod-Associated Fungi
  • Wolbachia-Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility
  • How Do Wolbachia Symbionts Increase the Proportion of Females in Their Hosts?
  • Genome of Buchnera sp. Aps, An Intracellular Symbiotic Bacterium of the Pea Aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum
  • The Functions of Symbiotic Micro-Organisms in Insects. A Perspective from Studies on Aposymbiotic Aphids
  • Ants, Agriculture and Antibiotics. A Quadripartite Symbiosis
  • Termite Hindgut Symbionts
  • Symbiosis in the Termite Gut
  • Cultivation of Symbiotic Fungi by Termites of the Subfamily Macrotermitinae
  • Cospeciation Between Hosts and Symbionts: The Sepiolid Squid-Vibrio Mutualism
  • Index