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1 online resource (viii, 662 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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Intro -- Prolog -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: The New Cryptogams -- 1.1 Oxy-Phototroph Life Forms and Traditional Botany -- 1.2 The New Cryptogams-a Modern Concept for the Non-Vascular Oxy-Phototroph Life Forms -- 1.3 Functional Aspects of New Cryptogams: Hydro-Passivity -- 1.4 The New Cryptogams Predated the Conquest of the Third Dimension on Land -- 1.5 The New Cryptogams and Chapter Selection of This Textbook -- References -- 2 Endosymbioses: Origin and Diversity of Photosynthetic Eukaryotes and Their General Genetic Exchange Modes |
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2.1 Introduction: The Role of Endosymbiosis in the Evolution of Eukaryotes -- 2.1.1 Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer and Reductive Evolution -- 2.1.2 Protein Import by Organelles -- 2.2 Primary Endosymbiosis: The Endosymbiotic Origin of Plastids -- 2.2.1 An Ancient Endosymbiotic Event and the Cyanobacterial Progenitor of Plastids -- 2.2.2 The Origin of Archaeplastida -- 2.2.2.1 Plastid Genomes -- 2.3 Eukaryote-Eukaryote Endosymbioses -- 2.3.1 A Brief Overview of the Endosymbiotic Potpourri -- 2.3.1.1 Secondary Endosymbiosis: EGT Mayhem -- 2.3.1.2 Complexities of Protein Targeting and Membrane |
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2.3.1.3 Nucleomorphs -- 2.4 A Modern Overview of Eukaryotic Diversity-The Opuntia-Tree-of-Life -- 2.5 Life histories, Plastid Spread, and Sexual Reproduction in the New Cryptogams -- References -- 3 Cyanobacteria/Blue-Green Algae -- 3.1 Short History of Cyanobacterial Research -- 3.2 Origin of Cyanobacteria -- 3.2.1 Cyanobacteria and the Origin of Plastids -- 3.3 Structure and Function -- 3.3.1 Cell Wall -- 3.3.2 Cytoplasm -- 3.3.2.1 Thylakoids -- 3.3.2.2 Photosynthesis and Cellular Metabolism -- 3.3.2.3 Carboxysomes -- 3.3.2.4 Gas Vesicles and Buoyancy -- 3.3.2.5 Glycogen Granules |
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3.3.2.6 Polyphosphate Bodies -- 3.3.2.7 Cyanophycin Granules -- 3.4 Survival and Cell Specialization -- 3.4.1 Heterocytes -- 3.4.2 Akinetes -- 3.4.3 Necridic Cells -- 3.4.4 Hormogonia -- 3.5 Reproduction, Life Cycle -- 3.5.1 Unicellular Cyanobacteria -- 3.5.2 Filamentous Cyanobacteria -- 3.5.2.1 Life Cycle of Nostoc Species -- 3.6 Phylogeny and Diversity -- 3.6.1 Taxonomy and Systematics -- 3.6.1.1 Order Gloeobacterales -- 3.6.1.2 Order Synechococcales -- 3.6.1.3 Order Spirulinales -- 3.6.1.4 Order Chroococcales -- 3.6.1.5 Order Pleurocapsales |
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3.6.1.6 Order of Unsafe Systematic Position: Chroococcidiopsidales -- 3.6.1.7 Order Oscillatoriales -- 3.6.1.8 Order Nostocales -- 3.6.2 Biogeography -- 3.7 Ecology -- 3.7.1 Rock and Soil -- 3.7.1.1 Rock (Epilithic, Endolithic) -- 3.7.1.2 Soil -- 3.7.2 Epiphytic -- 3.7.2.1 Phyllosphere -- 3.7.3 Freshwater and Marine Habitats -- 3.7.3.1 Lakes -- 3.7.3.2 Watercourses -- 3.7.3.3 Marine Plankton -- 3.7.4 Eco-Physiology -- 3.7.4.1 Desiccation Tolerance and Anhydrobiosis. -- 3.7.4.2 Light and Carbon Dioxide-Exchange -- 3.7.4.3 Temperature and Carbon Dioxide-Exchange -- 3.7.4.4 Thallus Water Content and Carbon Dioxide-Exchange |
| Summary |
As a reader of this book you will become familiar with current, up-to-date comprehensive knowledge about all classes of eukaryotic algae, the cyanobacteria, and symbiotic interactions of algae and cyanobacteria with other organisms. For example, the lichens are symbiotic consortia and a prominent example of a particularly successful evolution by cooperation. We expand even to the beginnings of terrestrial plant life and the bryophytes, which are gradually transmitting to the vascular plants. We collectively call this enormous phylogenetic wealth of photoautotrophic organisms the new cryptogams, abandoning the traditional definition of cryptogams. The new cryptogams are all those autotrophic organisms that share being hydro-passive, meaning that they are unable of controlling water uptake or release, in contrast to vascular plants. While being basal of and phylogenetically much more diverse than the vascular plants, the new cryptogams are ecologically highly relevant in all ecosystems of our Planet. They are responsible for more than half of the Earths annual oxygen production. The editors Burkhard Budel, born in 1953, with courses of studies in chemistry and biology at the universities of Darmstadt and Marburg/Lahn, received his doctoral degree from the latter in 1986. Habilitation at the university of Wurzburg in 1993. Professorships at the universities of Rostock (1995-1997) and, until retirement (2019), Kaiserslautern. Exploring expeditions to all continents, including both polar regions. Major research fields: ecology and ecophysiology of cyanobacteria, algae, lichens, and bryophytes; systematics and taxonomy of cyanobacteria and lichens. Thomas Friedl, born in 1960, with courses of studies in biology at the universities of Munchen, Marburg/Lahn, and Bayreuth, received his doctoral degree from the latter in 1989, is professor at the Georg-August-Universitt Gttingen since 1999. There he teaches about algae, performs research in the fields of biodiversity, systematics, and culture maintenance of algae and cyanobacteria. He is the scientific director of the renowned culture collection of algae at the university of Gottingen (SAG). Wolfram Beyschlag, born in 1953, with courses of studies in chemistry and biology at the universities of Kiel, Erlangen-Nurnberg and Wurzburg. Doctoral degree (1985) and habilitation (1990) at the university of Wurzburg. Since 1994 full professor for Experimental and Systems Ecology at the university of Bielefeld. Retired in 2019. Several research projects in the Mediterranean, the Western US, and the Central American Tropics. Main research topics: physiological ecology of higher plants and cryptogams, plant-plant and plant-animal interactions, ecological modelling. Long-term teaching experience on mosses and lichens |
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Algae.
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Lichens.
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Bryophytes.
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Algae (group)
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lichens (Fungi)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Büdel, Burkhard.
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Friedl, Thomas
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Beyschlag, Wolfram
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| ISBN |
9783662657126 |
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3662657120 |
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