Evolution and Speciation in Fungi and Eukaryotic Biodiversity

ISBN-13: 9781032421414 / Twarda / 2023 / 292 str.

India) Pandian Tamilnadu T. J. (Madurai Kamaraj University

Opis

Being sessiles like autotrophic plants and heterotrophics as animals, fungi are fascinating eukaryotes. In them, the need for external digestion has demanded surface expansion and limited tissues to < eight types. To reproduce, 96% fungi engage spores.

Spis treści

General Introduction. Spatial Distribution. Fungi: Modes of Life. Acquisition of Micronutrients. Mycology: Teaching – Degrees. Clonal Multiplication. Sex – Mating Type – Sexuality. Gametangia – Gametogenesis. Sporogenesis – Quantity – Dispersal. Sex Determination – Pheromones. Lichens. Past: Fungal Evolution. Present: Desiccation and Dormancy. Future: Climate Change. Eukaryotes: Species Diversity.

O autorze

Recipient of the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award for scientists, one of the 10 National Professorships, T.J. Pandian has served as editor/member of editorial boards of many international journals. His books on Animal Energetics (Academic Press) identify him as a prolific but precise writer. His five volumes on Sexuality, Sex Determination and Differentiation in Fish, published by CRC Press, are ranked with five stars. He has authored a multi-volume series on Reproduction and Development of Aquatic Invertebrates, of which the volumes on Crustacea, Mollusca, Echinodermata and Prochordata, Annelida, Platyhelminthes and Minor Phyla have been published. The CRC Press has recently published his new book series on Evolution and Speciation in Animals, Evolution and Speciation in Plants and Evolution and Speciation in Protozoa. The fourth volume on Evolution and Speciation in Fungi and Eukaryotic Biodiversity is in your hands.