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1 online resource (2 volumes in 1) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Treatise on Zoology -- Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology; Copyright; Contents; VOLUME I; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION: GREGARINES AMONG APICOMPLEXA; The high morphological diversity of the vegetative stages of gregarine trophozoites; Schizogony and taxonomy of gregarines; Life cycles of gregarines; A. Life cycle of a Eugregarine: Lecudina tuzetae; B. Life cycle of an Archigregarine: Selenidium pendula; C. Life cycle of a Neogregarine: Mattesia oryzaephili; Bibliography; CHAPTER II: BIOLOGY OF GREGARINES AND THEIR HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; II. 1 Biology of gregarines |
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II. 1.1 Cell and molecular organization of vegetative gregarines: the trophozoitesII. 1.1.1 Cell and molecular organization of the cortex of trophozoites: the epicyte; II. 1.1.2 Cytoskeleton and cell motility; II. 1.1.3 Diversity in nutrition: cell surface, mucron, epimerite; II. 1.1.4 Cytoplasmic organelles of trophozoites; II. 1.2 Syzygy and cell recognition between the gamonts; II. 1.2.1 Types of syzygy; II. 1.2.2 Syzygy with multiple associations; II. 1.2.3 Cell junctions between gamonts in syzygy; II. 1.2.4 Cell recognition and sexual differences between gamonts |
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II. 1.3 Biology and cell organization of gregarines during gamogonyII. 1.3.1 Rotational movements and secretions during cyst formation; II. 1.3.2 Syncytial nuclear divisions; II. 1.3.3 Cellularization; II. 1.3.4 Gametes and fertilization; II. 1.3.5 Centriole/basal body in Eukaryotes and the MTOC/basal body structures in gregarines; II. 1.3.6 Abnormal encystment: parthenogenesis?; II. 1.4 Biology and cell organization of gregarines during sporogony; II. 1.4.1 Zygote, meiosis and metagamic mitosis; II. 1.4.2 Secretion of the sporoblast wall and cytoplasmic events within the sporoblast |
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II. 1.4.3 Biogenesis of sporozoitesII. 1.4.4 Importance of spore structures in taxonomy of Gregarines; II. 1.4.5 Dissemination of the gregarine spores; II. 1.5 Transition from sporozoite to trophozoite; II. 2 Diversity of host-parasite interactions; II. 2.1 Behaviour of gregarines; II. 2.1.1 Habitat; II. 2.1.2 Host specificity; II. 2.1.3 Effects of gregarines on their hosts; II. 2.2 Electrophysiological properties of the cortical membranes in gregarine trophozoites; II. 2.3 Endosymbionts and hyperparasitemia with Microsporidia; II. 2.3.1 Bacteria; II. 2.3.2 Microsporidia |
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II. 2.4 Experimental control of gregarine life cyclesII. 2.4.1 Marine gregarines; II. 2.4.2 Terrestrial gregarines; II. 2.5 Relationships between host and parasite life cycles and chronology of gregarine life cycles; II. 2.5.1 Marine gregarines; II. 2.5.2 Terrestrial gregarines; Bibliography; CHAPTER III: MARINE GREGARINES; III. 1 General presentation; III. 1.1 Definition of Aseptatorina and Septatorina; III. 1.2 Intermediates between the Aseptatorina and Septatorina; III. 1.3 Gregarines of Polychaeta and other marine Lophotrochozoa |
| Summary |
Gregarines are apicomplexans and exclusively parasites of invertebrates. After the basic publication in the Traité de Zoologie by Grassé in 1953, this second edition is proposed to update the knowledge with information provided by new technologies such as electron microscopy, biochemistry and molecular biology and to enlighten their high diversity of adaptation to invertebrate hosts living in a diversity of biotopes. Morphological features, life cycles, host-parasite interactions and taxonomical data are most informative for the understanding of the evolution of the phylum Apicomplexa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Gregarines.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
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Gregarines
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Desportes, I
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Schrével, J
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| ISBN |
9789004256057 |
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9004256059 |
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9789004256057 |
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