Evolution and Speciation in Protozoa

ISBN-13: 9781032347516 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 180 str.

T.J. Pandian

Opis

The polyphyletic Protozoa have explored the possibility of performing almost all metazoan functions with a few subcellular organelles.

Spis treści

1. General Introduction  2. Spatial Distribution  3. Acquisition of Nutrients and Food  4. Commensals—Symbionts–Parasites  5. Sexual Reproduction  6. Clonal Multiplication—Regeneration  7. Gametogenesis  8. Induction and Morphogenesis  9. Diversity: Symmetry-Sexuality-Motility  10. Past: Emergence of Protozoa  11. Present: Conservation and Dormancy  12. Future: Climate Change  13. References

O autorze

Recipient of the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award for scientists, one of the ten 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 Fishes, 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 and Evolution and Speciation in Plants. The third volume on Evolution and Speciation in Protozoa is in your hands.