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Protistology
- 1st Edition - November 29, 2024
- Author: Sina M. Adl
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 2 9 9 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 3 0 0 - 9
Protistology provides a comprehensive overview on recent developments in understanding the diversity of cell biology, genomic processes, parasite-host interactions, and the evolut… Read more
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Request a sales quoteProtistology 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
Students and educators of microbial ecology, biodiversity and natural history, molecular phylogenies and bioinformatics, evolution, parasitology, and environmental sciences, Professionals in these sectors: pharmaceutical discovery, environmental remediation, pollution control, government environment and parks agencies, sustainable agriculture, plant pathology, animal and zoonotic diseases, algal biofuels, algal nutraceuticals and food supplements or additives, veterinary pathology, crop diseases, and medical microbiology and pathology clinicians
- Title of Book
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Protistology
- About the author
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 What is a protist species?
- 1.2 How much lateral gene transfer in protist evolution?
- 1.3 Sex. Multiple origins or multiple losses?
- 2. A very brief history
- 2.1 Diversity, classification, and nomenclature
- 3. Protist systematics and classification
- 3.1 Assembling a classification from a phylogeny
- Section I
- 4. Archaeplastida
- 4.1 Diaphoretickes Adl et al. 2012
- 4.2 Archaeplastida Adl et al. 2005
- 4.2.1 Glaucophyta Skuja 1954
- 4.2.2 Rhodophyceae Thuret 1855, emend. Adl et al. 2019
- 4.2.3 Chloroplastida Adl et al. 2005
- 4.2.3.1 Chlorophyta Pascher 1914, emnd. Lewis and McCourt 2004
- 4.2.3.2 Streptophyta Brenner and Wanntrop 1981
- 5. Cryptista Adl et al., 2019
- 6. Haptista Cavalier-Smith 2003
- 6.1 Haptophyta Hibberd 1976 ex Edvardsen and Ekrem 2000
- 6.2 Centroplasthelida Febvre-Chevalier and Febvre 1984
- 7. Stramenopiles1 Patterson 1989, emend. Adl et al. 2005
- 7.1 Opalozoa Cavalier Smith 1991, emend. 2006
- 7.2 Sagenista Cavalier-Smith 1995
- 7.3 Gyrista Cavalier-Smith 1998
- 7.4 Chrysista Cavalier-Smith 1986
- 7.4.1 Pinguiochrysidaceae
- 7.4.2 Eustigmatales
- 7.4.3 Synchromophyceae
- 7.4.4 Synurales
- 7.4.5 Chrysophyceae
- 7.4.6 Raphidophyceae
- 7.4.7 Phaeothamniophyceae
- 7.4.8 Xanthophyceae
- 7.4.9 Schizocladia
- 7.4.10 Phaeophyceae
- 7.5 Diatomista Derelle et al. 2016, emend. Cavalier-Smith 2017
- 7.5.1 Pelagophyceae
- 7.5.2 Dictyochophyceae
- 7.5.3 Bolidophyceae
- 7.5.4 Diatomea Dumortier 1821
- 8. Alveolata Cavalier-Smith 1991
- 8.1 Protoalveolates1
- 8.1.1 Colpodellida Cavalier-Smith 1993, emend. Adl et al. 2005, 2019
- 8.1.2 Perkinsidae Levine 1978, emend. Adl et al. 2005
- 8.1.3 Colponemidia Cavalier-Smith 1993 emend. Adl et al. 2019
- 8.2 Dinoflagellata Bütschli 1885 emend. Adl et al. 2005
- 8.2.1 Syndiniales
- 8.2.2 Dinophyceae Pascher 1914
- 8.3 Apicomplexa Levine 1980 emend. Adl et al. 2005
- 8.3.1 Aconoidasida
- 8.3.2 Conoidasida
- 8.4 Ciliophora Doflein 1901
- 9. Rhizaria Cavalier-Smith 2002
- 9.1 Gymnosphaeridae Poche 1913 emend. Mikrjukov 2000
- 9.2 Cercozoa Cavalier-Smith 1998, emend. Adl et al. 2005; emend. Cavalier-Smith 2018
- 9.2.1 Cercomonadida
- 9.2.2 Paracercomonadida
- 9.2.3 Glissomonadida
- 9.2.4 Viridiraptoridae
- 9.2.5 Pansomonadidae
- 9.2.6 Sainouroidea
- 9.2.7 Thecofilosea
- 9.2.7.1 Cryomonadida
- 9.2.7.2 Tectofilosida
- 9.2.7.3 Ebriacea
- 9.2.7.4 Phaeodarea
- 9.2.8 Granofilosea
- 9.2.9 Chlorarachnea
- 9.2.10 Imbricatea Cavalier-Smith 2011
- 9.2.10.1 Silicofilosea
- 9.3 Endomyxa
- 9.3.1 Vampyrellida
- 9.3.2 Phytomyxea
- 9.3.3 Ascetosporea
- 9.4 Radiolaria
- 9.4.1 Taxopodida
- 9.4.2 Acantharea
- 9.4.3 Polycystinea
- 9.5 Foraminifera
- 9.5.1 Monothalamea
- 9.5.2 Tubothalamea
- 9.5.3 Globothalamea
- 10. Obazoa, CRuMs, Hemimastigophora, and miscellaneous eukaryotes
- 11. Amoebozoa Lühe 1913
- 11.1 Tubulinea Smirnov et al. 2005
- 11.2 Evosea Kang et al. 2017
- 11.3 Discosea Cavalier-Smith et al. 2004, sensu Smirnov et al. 2011
- 12. Discoba
- 12.1 Discoba Simpson in Hampl et al., 2009
- 12.1.1 Jakobida Cavalier-Smith 1993
- 12.2 Heterolobosea Page and Blanton 1985
- 12.3 Euglenozoa Cavalier-Smith 1981, emend. Simpson 1997
- 12.3.1 Euglenida Butschli 1884, emend. Simpson 1997
- 12.3.2 Symbiontida Yubuki et al. 2009
- 12.3.3 Diplonemea Cavalier-Smith 1993, emend. Simpson 1997
- 12.3.4 Kinetoplastea Honigberg 1963
- 13. Metamonada Grassé 1952, emend. Cavalier-Smith 1987
- 13.1 Fornicata Simpson 2003
- 13.2 Parabasalia Honigberg 1973
- 13.3 Preaxostyla Simpson 2003
- 13.3.1 Oxymonadida Grassé 1952
- 14. Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith 1987, emend. Adl et al., 2005
- 14.1 Holomycota Liu et al., 2009
- 14.1.1 Rotosphaerida Rainer 1968
- 14.1.2 Opisthosporidia Karpov, Aleoshin & Mikhalov 2014
- 14.1.3 Chytridiomorpha Adl 2024
- 14.1.4 Blastocladiales Petersen 1909
- 14.1.5 Chytridiomycota Doweld 2001 emend Powell 2019
- 14.1.6 Monoblepharidomycetes JH Schaffn 1909
- 14.1.7 Neocallimastigaceae Heath 1853 emend Barr 1989
- 14.1.8 Sanchytriaceae Adl 2024
- 14.2 Zoopagomycota Gyrganskyi et al. 2016
- 14.2.1 Entomophthoromycotina Humber 2007
- 14.2.2 Zoopagales Bessey ex RK Benjamin
- 14.2.3 Kickxellomycotina Hibbett et al., 2007
- 14.3 Mucoromycota Doweld 2001
- 14.3.1 Mortierellaceae Fischer 1892
- 14.3.2 Mucoromycotina Benny 2007
- 14.3.3 Glomeromycotina C Walker & A. Schüßler 2016
- 14.4 Dikarya Hibbett et al. 2007 emend Hibbett et al. 2018
- 14.4.1 Ascomycota Cavalier-Smith 1998
- 14.4.1.1 Taphrinomycotina OE Ericksson & Winka 1997
- 14.4.1.2 Saccharomycetales Kudryavtsev 1960
- 14.4.1.3 Pezizomycotina OE Ericksson & Winka 1997
- 14.4.2 Basidiomycota RT Moore 1980
- 14.4.2.1 Agaricomycotina Doweld 2001
- 14.4.2.2 Pucciniomycotina R Bauer et al. 2006
- 14.4.2.3 Ustilaginomycotina R Bauer et al. 2006
- 14.4.2.4 Wallemiomycotina Doweld 2014
- 14.4.3 Fungal growth and nutrition
- 14.5 Holozoa Lang et al. 2002
- 14.5.1 Ichthyosporea Cavalier-Smith 1998
- 14.5.2 Filasterea Shalchian-Tabrizi et al. 2008
- 14.5.3 Choanoflagellata Kent 1880–82
- 14.5.3.1 Prey capture and feeding
- 14.5.3.2 Phylogeny and classification
- 14.5.3.3 Acanthoecidae Norris 1965, emend. sensu Nitsche et al. 2011
- 14.5.4 Porifera Grant 1836
- 14.5.5 Transition to Metazoa and Animalia
- 14.5.6 Blastula and gastrula
- Section II
- 15. Origin of eukaryotes
- 15.1 Atmosphere composition and temperature
- 15.2 Earliest fossil eukaryotes
- 16. Origin of protists
- 16.1 Serial endosymbiosis
- 16.2 A common cytoplasm for diverse genomes
- 16.3 Sex
- 16.4 Introns and the nucleus
- 16.5 Endomembranes
- 16.6 Anaerobic to aerobic respiration
- 16.7 Vesicle transport and cytoskeleton
- 16.8 Tubulin
- 16.9 Nuclear pores and cilium
- 16.10 Microtubular organizing center
- 16.11 Elements of the cytoskeleton
- 17. Cell cycle regulation
- 17.1 Growth and division of organelles and endosymbionts
- 17.2 Morphogenesis and cytoskeleton
- 17.2.1 Ciliate stomatogenesis
- 17.2.2 Kinetosomes and MTOC
- 17.3 Cell cycle duration and growth phase
- 17.3.1 Cell size constancy
- 17.3.2 Regulation of progress through the cell cycle
- 17.3.3 Growth rate and the electron transport chain
- 17.4 Cell size regulation
- 17.4.1 Cell growth, division, and size control in Amoeba proteus
- 17.4.2 Cell size regulation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
- 17.4.3 Growth regulation in asymmetric divisions of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- 17.4.4 Size regulation despite mass and DNA content variation in Paramecium tetraurelia
- 17.4.5 Coupling growth and size constancy in Chlamydomonas
- Glossary
- 18. Cell shape
- 18.1 Kinetosome polarity and asymmetry
- 18.2 Kinetid orientation, rotation, and enantiomers
- 18.3 Singlets and doublets
- 18.4 Pattern memory
- 18.5 Mirror-imaged doublets
- 18.6 The anterior–posterior axis
- 18.7 Molecular basis for anterior–posterior axis determination
- 18.8 Mutants of the global cell patterning
- 18.8.1 Kinetid and kinety mutations
- 18.8.2 Cytostome mutations
- 18.8.3 Circumferential pattern mutations
- 18.9 Patterns in the evolution of protist cell morphology
- 18.10 Concluding remarks (and for students who struggled with this chapter)
- 18.10.1 Wolpert's positional information
- 18.10.2 Turing morphogens
- 18.10.3 A square wave is not a sine wave
- 19. Photosynthesis and primary plastid endosymbiosis
- 19.1 Primary plastid in Archaeplastida
- 19.2 Paulinella
- 19.3 Adjusting to toxicity of oxygenic photosynthesis
- 19.4 Light-harvesting complex
- 19.4.1 From phycobilisomes to chlorophylls—Compromising efficiency and ROS quenching
- 19.4.2 Photosystem evolution
- 19.4.3 Tetrapyrroles, porphyrins, and haem biosynthesis
- 20. Secondary and tertiary plastid serial endosymbiosis
- 20.1 Ochrophyta (Stramenopiles)
- 20.1.1 Protein transport to the plastid
- 20.1.2 Plastid particularities
- 20.2 Euglenida
- 20.3 From endosymbiont to organelle
- 20.4 Cryptomonad and chlorarachnion nucleomorphs
- 20.5 Dinoflagellates with nucleomorphs
- 20.6 Transitional plastid stages
- 20.6.1 Lepidodinium
- 20.6.2 Karenia species
- 20.6.3 Kryptoperidiniaceae1
- 20.6.4 The unusual Hatena
- 20.6.5 Temporary plastid acquisition
- 20.6.6 Mixotrophy
- 20.6.7 Summary
- 20.7 “You are what you eat”
- 20.8 Envoi
- 21. Organellar loss and gain of functions
- 21.1 Gaining and losing
- 21.1.1 KW Jeong's Amoeba proteus strain D
- 21.1.2 Use it or lose it: Loss of phagotrophy in a strain of Alexandrium pseudogonyaulax
- 21.1.3 On the origin of the killer Paramecium
- 21.1.4 Widespread and varied endosymbiosis in ciliophora
- 21.2 Extrusomes
- 21.2.1 Mucocysts
- 21.2.2 Trichocysts
- 21.3 Loss of photosynthesis and plastid loss of function
- 21.3.1 Archaeplastida
- 21.3.2 Stramenopiles
- 21.4 Mitochondrion loss of function in anaerobic environments
- 21.4.1 Reversion: From parasite to free-living
- 21.4.2 A singular organelle-like mitochondrial replacement in an anaerobic ciliate
- 21.5 Endosymbiosis and metabolic gains
- 21.5.1 Gain and loss of function in kinetoplastids
- 21.5.2 Symbionts, detoxification, syntrophy
- 21.5.3 Syntrophy in the hindgut of lower termites
- 22. Touching, feeling, sensing
- 22.1 Porifera species discrimination
- 22.2 Foundations of behavior in Paramecium
- 22.3 Chemotaxis
- 22.4 Excystment and spore germination
- 22.5 Host specificity and membrane recognition
- 22.5.1 Giardia
- 22.5.2 Trichomonas vaginalis
- 22.5.3 Entamoeba histolytica
- 22.5.4 Naegleria fowleri
- 22.5.5 Microsporidia
- 22.5.6 Apicomplexa, host membrane recognition
- 22.5.7 Trypanosomatidae
- 22.6 Predator–prey interactions
- 22.6.1 Optimal foraging
- 22.6.2 Prey preference
- 22.6.3 Chemotaxis to prey or predator signals
- 23. Sex
- 23.1 The sexual cycle
- 23.2 From isogamy to anisogamy
- 23.3 The many forms of meiosis
- 23.4 Mating types and sexual complementarity
- 23.4.1 Fungi
- 23.4.2 Alveolata
- 23.4.3 Metamonada
- 23.4.4 Discoba
- 23.4.5 Ameobozoa
- 23.4.6 Stramenopiles
- 23.4.7 Archaeplastida
- 23.5 Remarks on sex in protists
- 23.6 Sex
- 23.6.1 Growth of sexual and asexual populations
- 23.6.2 Sex increases the rate of change
- 23.6.3 Muller's ratchet
- 23.6.4 Neutral mutations and background selection
- 23.6.5 Asexual growth in protists
- 24. Evolution of the genetic code
- 25. Glossary
- Legend to symbols in figures
- 26. Protistology societies and journals
- 26.1 Societies
- 26.1.1 International society of protistologists
- 26.1.2 International congress of protistology
- 26.1.3 International phycological society
- 26.1.4 International society for evolutionary protistology
- 26.1.5 American of society parasitology
- 26.1.6 Phycological society of America
- 26.1.7 Federation of European protistological societies
- 26.1.8 Federation of European phycological societies
- 26.1.9 International society for testate ameba research
- 26.1.10 International dictyostelium meetings
- 26.1.11 Ciliate molecular biology conference
- 26.1.12 The oomycete molecular genetics network
- 26.2 Journals
- 27. Appendix. Summary of the PhyloCode
- 27.1 Codes of nomenclature
- 27.2 Summary of the PhyloCode
- 27.3 Glossary (the text below is reproduced as written in the PhyloCode)
- Index
- No. of pages: 690
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 29, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323952996
- eBook ISBN: 9780323953009
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Sina M. Adl
Dr. Sina Adl, has been a university Professor since 2002. He graduated with a PhD from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in 1998. His research has been in 1) protist diversity and classification; 2) soil ecology and sustainable agriculture; 3) soil food webs and community structure; 4) global soil biodiversity and biogeography. He is a past-President of the International Society of Protistologists (an umbrella society for various national and related disciplinary societies). He has taught Microbial Diversity, Microbial Ecology, Comparative Protistology, Soil Ecology, and Global Food Security (from a sustainable agriculture perspective). He is the founding editor, and Editor-in-Chief of Rhizosphere (Elsevier), a soil ecology journal.
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Professor, Department of Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, CanadaRead Protistology on ScienceDirect