Protistology

About this book

Protistology is the study of protists, i.e. all eukaryotic organisms apart from animals, plants and fungi. Protistology provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in understanding the diversity of cell biology, genomic processes, parasite-host interactions, and the evolution of eukaryotes. The book is the first modern treatise on these organisms, walking readers through protistology's diversity and classification. This book is an ideal supplemental text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in microbial ecology, freshwater and marine biology, soil ecology, environmental sciences, or those looking to initiate a course in protistology.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. A brief history
3. Diversity, classification, and nomenclature

Section I
4. Archaeplastida
5. Cryptista
6. Haptista
7. Stramenopiles
8. Alveolata
9. Rhizaria
10. Amorphea, Opisthokonta, CRUMS, and Obazoa
11. Amoebozoa
12. Discoba
13. Metamonada

Section II
14. Codon usage
15. Endosymbionts
16. Transfer of organelle and symbiont genes to the nucleus
17. Lateral gene transfers
18. Ectosymbionts
19. Extrusomes
20. Endomembrane system, vesicle transport
21. Surface antigen variance
22. Ciliophora genetics and inheritance, (epigenetics)
23. Gene editing
24. Mating type systems
25. Cell-cell communication and recognition
26. Cell shape and polarity
27. Cytoskeletal elements (fine filaments, intermediate filaments, microtubular structures)
28. Morphogenesis and cell cycle regulation
29. Evolution and diversity of parasitism
30. Ecology (functional groups, community structure, food webs and nutrient cycling)
31. Glossary and Abbreviations
32. Journals and Societies
33. Bibliography (selected papers and books)

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Biography

Dr Sina Adl has been a university Professor since 2002. He graduated with a PhD from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in 1998. His research has been in 1) protist diversity and classification; 2) soil ecology and sustainable agriculture; 3) soil food webs and community structure; 4) global soil biodiversity and biogeography. He is a past-President of the International Society of Protistologists (an umbrella society for various national and related disciplinary societies). He has taught Microbial Diversity, Microbial Ecology, Comparative Protistology, Soil Ecology, and Global Food Security (from a sustainable agriculture perspective). He is the founding editor and Editor-in-Chief of Rhizosphere (Elsevier), a soil ecology journal.