The Cytoskeleton of Flagellate and Ciliate Protists

ISBN-13: 9783709173916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 167 str.

Robert A. Andersen; Michael Melkonian; Robert A. Andersen

Opis

This is a new type of calculus book: Students who master this text will be well versed in calculus and, in addition, possess a useful working knowledge of how to use modern symbolic mathematics software systems for solving problems in calculus. This will equip them with the mathematical competence they need for science and engineering and the competitive workplace. MACSYMA is used as the software in which the example programs and calculations are given. However, by the experience gained in this book, the student will also be able to use any of the other major mathematical software systems, like for example AXIOM, MATHEMATICA, MAPLE, DERIVE or REDUCE, for doing calculus on computers.

Spis treści

Terminology and nomenclature of the cytoskeletal elements associated with the flagellar/ciliary apparatus in protists.- Why do tubulin gene families lack diversity in flagellate/ciliate protists?.- Transmembrane signaling in cilia and flagella.- Development apparatus during the cell cycle in unicellular algae.- An update on fibrous flagellar roots in green algae.- Mechanisms of flagellar propulsion. A biologist’s view of the relation between structure, motion and fluid mechanics.- High-speed video analysis of the flagellar beat and swimming patterns of algae: possible evolutionary trends in green algae.- Flagellar and cytoskeletal systems in amitochondrial flagellates: Archamoeba, Metamonada and Parabasala.- An ultrastructural comparison of the mitotic apparatus, feeding apparatus, flagellar apparatus and cytoskeleton in euglenoids and kinetoplastids.- The flagellar apparatus and cytoskeleton of the dinoflagellates. A comparative overview.- The implications of recent descriptions of kinetic structure to the systematics of the ciliated protists.- The cytoskeleton of chromophyte algae.- Vischeria stellata (Eustigmatophyceae): ultrastructure of the zoospores, with special reference to the flagellar apparatus.