Diatoms Biology and Morphology of the Genera

Name: Diatoms Biology and Morphology of the Genera
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ISBN: 9780521714693

ISBN-10: 0521714699

ISBN-13: 9780521714693

Edition: 1990

Authors: F. E. Round, R. M. Crawford, D. G. Mann

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Illustrated descriptions of over 250 genera of diatoms are presented for the first time in this wide-ranging volume. The introduction describes the diatom cell in detail, the structure of the wall (often extremely beautiful designs), the cell contents and aspects of life cycle and cell division. The generic atlas section is the first account of diatom systematics since 1928, and each generic description is accompanied by scanning electron micrographs to show the characteristic structure.

Book details

List price: $106.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 760
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.69" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.146
Language: English



Preface



Biology of Diatoms



Preamble



The diatom cell



Collecting and studying diatoms



Culturing



Silicon: occurrence, uptake and deposition



Cell symmetry



Life form



Valve structure



Complementarity and heterovalvy



Portules



Ocelli, pseudocelli and pseudonoduli



Raphe



Girdle bands (copulae)



Internal valves



Resting stages and resting spores



The organic casing



The protoplast: plastids, mitchondria, dictyosomes, nucleus, vacuole



The cell cycle



Vegetative multiplication and cell size reduction



Sexual reproduction



Oogamy



Physiological anisogamy and isogamy



Automixis and parthenogenesis



Auxospore development



Motility



Ecology



Palaeoecology



Concepts in diatom systematics



Evolution and phylogeny



Fossils



Accounts of genera - preliminary notes



Summary of classification



Generic Atlas



Centric genera



Araphid genera



Raphid genera



new taxa



list of recently described genera



index nominum genericorum


References


Taxonomic index


Subject index