Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9783642066368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 449 str.

Ursula K. Es; Reinhard Fischer

Opis

Since publication of the first edition of Volume I in 1994, the field of fungal biology has developed tremendously, mainly through the advancement of various molecular techniques and international fungal genome projects. To accommodate these developments, the second edition has been completely updated. Six chapters have been revised by former authors, others by newly recruited experts, and also novel subjects, emerged in more recent years, have been added to the book. Leading scientists in the field have compiled comprehensive overviews as well as latest results obtained from cytological, genetic and molecular studies. Topics include: cellular and colony growth of fungi, cellular fusion and incompatibility, senescence and programmed cell death, environmental and physiological signalling in differentiation processes, asexual and sexual reproduction, mitosis and meiosis of various types of fungi. Both parallels and differences become visible between individual fungi as well as between fungal classes.

Spis treści

Vegetative processes and growth 1 Fungal cell types K.J. Boyce and A. Andrianapoulous 2 Organelle inheritance in budding yeast and other fungi L.J. García-Rodríguez, A.C. Gay, and L.A. Pon 3 Mitosis in filamentous fungi S. Harris 4 Apical wall biogenesis J.H. Sietsma and J.G.H. Wessels 5 The fungal cell wall J.P. Latgé and R. Calderone 6 Septation and cytokinesis in fungi J. Wendland and A. Walther 7 Re-wiring the network: understanding the mechanism and function of anastomosis in filamentous ascomycete fungi N. L. Glass and A. Fleißner 8 Heterogenic incompatibility in fungi K. Esser 9 Programmed cell death in fungi B.C.-K. Lu 10 Senescence and longevity H.D. Osiewacz and A. Hamann Signals in growth and development 11Autoregulatory signals in mycelial fungi U. Ugalde 12 Pheromone action in the fungal groups Chytridiomycota, and Zygomycota, and in the Oomycota C. Schimek and J. Wöstemeyer 13 Photomorphogenesis and gravitropism L. Corrochano and P. Galland Reproductive Processes 14 Asexual sporulation in mycelial fungi R. Fischer and U. Kües 15 Regulation of sexual development in filamentous ascomycetes (Mating types, pheromones) R. Debuchy and G. Turgeon 16 Fruiting body development in ascomycetes S. Pöggeler, M. Nowrousian, and U. Kück 17 Mating type genes of the basidiomycetes L.A. Casselton and M.P. Challen 18 Regulatory and structural networks, orchestrating mating, dimorphism, cell shape, and pathogenesis in Ustilago M. Feldbrügge, M. Bölker, G. Steinberg, J. Kämper, and R. Kahmann 19 The emergence of fruiting bodies in basidiomyctes H.A.B. Wösten and J.G.H. Wessels 20 Meiosis in mycelial fungi D. Zickler Biosystematic Index Subject Index