Diatoms

Biology and Morphology of the Genera

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Paperback | 4 December 2007

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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. The introduction describes the diatom cell in detail, the structure of the wall (often extremely beautiful in design), the cell contents and aspects of life cycle and cell division. The generic atlas section is the first account of diatom systematics since 1928 (Karsten in Engler and Prantl: Die Nauturlichen Pflanzenfamilien) and each generic description is accompanied by scanning electron micrographs to show the characteristic structure. Most of the latter have been prepared specially for this work from the authors' own collections. The Diatoms will be the standard reference work on the group for years to come and is an essential reference volume.

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'... this is the most comprehensive volume on the biostratigraphic use of plankton microfossils available today. In this age of pluralism it will take its place amongst the classics in our field and serve as the standard reference for the next generation of micropaleontologists'. Micropaleontology 'This is a beautifully produced, concisely edited and excellently illustrated manual.' Marine Micropaleontology

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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
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