Overview
- Explores the ecological, medical and economic importance of major groups of protists
- Covers protist morphology, molecular biology, biochemistry, ecology and fossil record
- Collates work on an unparalleled breadth of eukaryotic micro-organisms
- Organized by current protist systematics as informed by molecular phylogenetics and genomics
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Published in a modern, user-friendly format this fully revised and updated edition of The Handbook of Protoctista (1990) is the resource for those interested in the biology, diversity and evolution of eukaryotic microorganisms and their descendants, exclusive of animals, plants and fungi. With chapters written by leading researchers in the field, the content reflects the present state of knowledge of the cell and genome biology, evolutionary relationships and ecological/medical/economic importance each major group of protists, organized according to current protist systematics as informed by molecular phylogenetics and genomics.
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About the editors
Alastair Simpson is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University, Canada, and a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.He is the chair of the Systematics and Program Committees of the International Society of Protistologists (ISoP), and a previous winner of ISoP’s Hutner Prize for research excellence. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology for 10 years. Dr Simpson has authored >100 scientific publications on the biodiversity, evolutionary history, cell structure and molecular evolution of eukaryotic microbes, with a particular emphasis on free-living protozoa.
Dr. Claudio Slamovits is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research, Program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity. He is an executive member of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology and also sits in the Awards committee of the International Society of Protistologists. Dr. Slamovits has received his Ph.D. degree in Buenos Aires, Argentina and conducted postdoctoral training in the University of British Columbia. Since 2009 he leads research in genomics, cell and molecular biology and evolution on a diverse array of protistan lineages.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of the Protists
Editors: John M. Archibald, Alastair G.B. Simpson, Claudio H. Slamovits, Lynn Margulis, Michael Melkonian, David J. Chapman, John O. Corliss
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32669-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Biomedicine and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32669-6Due: 26 February 2018
Additional Information: Second edition of The Handbook of Protoctista (Lynn Margulis, John O. Corliss, Michael Melkonian, David J. Chapman (eds.)), Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Boston, 1990; Fully Revised and Updated
Topics: Eukaryotic Microbiology, Parasitology, Microbial Ecology, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology, Animal Physiology