| Description |
747 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface Biology of Diatoms Preamble -- The diatom cell -- Collecting and studying diatoms -- Culturing -- Silicon: occurrence, uptake and deposition -- Cell symmetry -- Life form -- Valve structure -- Complementarity and heterovalvy -- Portules -- Ocelli, pseudocelli and pseudo-noduli -- Raphe -- Girdle bands (copulae) -- Internal valves -- Resting states and resting spores -- The organic casing -- The protoplast: plastids, mitchondria, dictyosomes, nucleus, vacuole -- The cell cycle -- Vegetative multiplication and cell size reduction -- Sexual reproduction -- Oogamy -- Physiological anisogamy and isogamy -- Automixis and parthenogenesis -- Auxospore development -- Motility -- Ecology -- Palaeoecology -- Concepts in diatom systematics -- Evolution and phylogeny -- Fossils -- Accounts of genera - preliminary notes -- Summary of classification Generic atlas Centric genera Araphid genera Raphid genera Appendix I New Taxa Appendix II List of recently described genera Appendix III Index Nominum Genericorum References Taxonomic index Subject index |
| Analysis |
Diatoms |
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Diatoms |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 707-728 |
| Subject |
Diatoms.
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Diatoms.
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| Author |
Crawford, R. M.
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Mann, D. G.
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| LC no. |
88035276 |
| ISBN |
0521363187 |
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