This book presents a wide-ranging introduction to the diatoms together with an illustrated description of over 250 genera. Diatoms are important as perhaps the commonest group of autotrophic plants on earth and are abundant in all waters and on soils and moist surfaces.
This book presents a wide-ranging introduction to the diatoms together with an illustrated description of over 250 genera. Diatoms are important as perhaps the commonest group of autotrophic plants on earth and are abundant in all waters and on soils and moist surfaces.
Preface Part I. Biology of Diatoms: 1. Preamble 2. The diatom cell 3. Collecting and studying diatoms 4. Culturing 5. Silicon: occurrence, uptake and deposition 6. Cell symmetry 7. Life form 8. Valve structure 9. Complementarity and heterovalvy 10. Portules 11. Ocelli, pseudocelli and pseudonoduli 12. Raphe 13. Girdle bands (copulae) 14. Internal valves 15. Resting stages and resting spores 16. The organic casing 17. The protoplast: plastids, mitchondria, dictyosomes, nucleus, vacuole 18. The cell cycle 19. Vegetative multiplication and cell size reduction 20. Sexual reproduction 21. Oogamy 22. Physiological anisogamy and isogamy 23. Automixis and parthenogenesis 24. Auxospore development 25. Motility 26. Ecology 27. Palaeoecology 28. Concepts in diatom systematics 29. Evolution and phylogeny 30. Fossils 31. Accounts of genera - preliminary notes 32. Summary of classification Part II. Generic Atlas: 33. Centric genera 34. Araphid genera 35. Raphid genera Appendix I: new taxa Appendix II: list of recently described genera Appendix III: index nominum genericorum References Taxonomic index Subject index.
Preface Part I. Biology of Diatoms: 1. Preamble 2. The diatom cell 3. Collecting and studying diatoms 4. Culturing 5. Silicon: occurrence, uptake and deposition 6. Cell symmetry 7. Life form 8. Valve structure 9. Complementarity and heterovalvy 10. Portules 11. Ocelli, pseudocelli and pseudonoduli 12. Raphe 13. Girdle bands (copulae) 14. Internal valves 15. Resting stages and resting spores 16. The organic casing 17. The protoplast: plastids, mitchondria, dictyosomes, nucleus, vacuole 18. The cell cycle 19. Vegetative multiplication and cell size reduction 20. Sexual reproduction 21. Oogamy 22. Physiological anisogamy and isogamy 23. Automixis and parthenogenesis 24. Auxospore development 25. Motility 26. Ecology 27. Palaeoecology 28. Concepts in diatom systematics 29. Evolution and phylogeny 30. Fossils 31. Accounts of genera - preliminary notes 32. Summary of classification Part II. Generic Atlas: 33. Centric genera 34. Araphid genera 35. Raphid genera Appendix I: new taxa Appendix II: list of recently described genera Appendix III: index nominum genericorum References Taxonomic index Subject index.
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