Protozoa and Other Protists
Author: Michael A. Sleigh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-10-03
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521417518
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael A. Sleigh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-10-03
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521417518
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Steve Parker
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 0756542243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book introduces you to creatures from the protist kingdom, from microscopic protozoans to seaweedlike algae. It examines the parts, life cycle, and reproduction of various types of protists. It also looks at the harmful effects some protists have on humans. Did You Know? The deadly disease malaria is caused in part by the protist Plasmodium. The fossils of one type of protist, the red algae, date back more than 500 million years. Paramecium, a well known protist, uses hairlike cilia to sweep food into its mouth.
Author: Genoveva F. Esteban
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-01-04
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 3030599795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book emphasises the important role that protozoa play in many natural ecosystems. To shed new light on their individual adaptive skills, the respective chapters examine the ecology and functional biology of this diverse group of eukaryotic microbes. Protozoa are well-established model organisms that exemplify many general problems in population ecology and community ecology, as well as evolutionary biology. Their particular characteristics, like large population sizes, life cycles and motile sensory behaviour, have a profound impact on their survival, distribution, and interaction with other species. Thus, readers will also be introduced to protozoan habitats in a broad range of environments. Even though this group of unicellular organisms is highly diverse, the authors focus on shared ecological patterns. Students and scientists working in the areas of eukaryotic microbiology and ecology will appreciate this updated and revised 2nd Edition as a valuable reference guide to the “lifestyles” of protozoa.
Author: Rona Arato
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2010-04
Total Pages: 51
ISBN-13: 0778791815
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This intriguing book shows how this group's unusal members are generally classified according to an absence of a feature, such as the lack of complicated cell structure. Learn about such exotic organisms as algae, amoebae, and slime molds--all of them protists. Case histories examine the importance of plankton to the marine food chains and the role of protists in various diseases.
Author: Gareth Editorial Staff
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2003-07-03
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780836833713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the appearance, characteristics, and behavior of protists and fungi, lifeforms which are neither plants nor animals, using specific examples such as algae, mold, and mushrooms.
Author: Denis Lynn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-06-24
Total Pages: 627
ISBN-13: 1402082398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →distances between groups of ciliates were as vast as significant hurdles to obtain copyright permissions the genetic distances between plants and animals for the over 1,000 required illustrations, and I put – THE major eukaryotic kingdoms at that time! the publication schedule ahead of this element. I continued to collaborate with Mitch, and in There are a number of significant illustrated guides 1991 my first “molecular” Magisterial student, to genera and species that have recently been pub- Spencer Greenwood, published an article estab- lished. References are made to these throughout lishing 1990 or thereabouts as the beginning of the book as sources that readers can consult for this the “Age of Refinement” – the period when gene aspect of ciliate diversity. A future project that I am sequencing techniques would deepen our under- contemplating is an illustrated guide to all the valid standing of the major lines of evolution within ciliate genera.
Author: Tom Fenchel
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 2013-07-02
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 3662259818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gina Hamilton
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Published: 2006-09-01
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 0787783331
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Milliken's Kingdoms of Life series is aligned with national science standards and reflects current teaching practices. Each book includes approximately 50 black and white reproducible pages, 12 full-color transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks), comprehension questions and lab activities for each unit, an answer key, a glossary of bolded terms, a timeline of biological discovery, a laboratory safety guide, as well as a national standards correlation chart. Protista details the structure and behavior of protists — distinguished from monera principally by being composed of so-called "true cells" (eukaryotes), or cells containing a distinct nucleus. Protists can be either unicellular or multicellular and include most algae and some fungi.
Author: W. Foissner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-07-24
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9048128013
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Conservation and biodiversity of protists The conservation of biodiversity is not just an issue of plants and vertebrates. It is the scarcely visible invertebrates and myriads of other microscopic organisms that are crucial to the maintenance of ecological processes on which all larger organisms and the composition of the atmosphere ultimately depend. Biodiversity and Conservation endeavours to take an holistic view of biodiversity, and when the opportunity arises to issue collections of papers dealing with too-often neglected groups of organisms. The protists, essentially eukaryotes that cannot be classi?ed in the kingdoms of animals, fungi, or plants, include some of the lea- known groups of organisms on earth. They are generally treated as a separate kingdom, commonly named Protista (or Protoctista) in textbooks, but in reality they are a mixture of organisms with disparate a?nities. Some authors have hypothesized that the numbers of protists are not especially large, and that many have extraordinarily wide distributions. However, the p- ture that unfolds from the latest studies discussed in this issue is di?erent. There are many species with wide ranges, and proportionately more cosmopolitan species than in macroorganism groups, as a result of their long evolutionary histories, but there are also de?nite patterns and geographical restrictions to be found. Further, some protists are linked to host organisms as mutualists or parasites and necessarily con?ned to the distributions of their hosts.