Eukaryotic Microbes presents chapters hand-selected by the editor of the Encyclopedia of Microbiology, updated whenever possible by their original authors to include key developments made since their initial publication. The book provides an overview of the main groups of eukaryotic microbes and presents classic and cutting-edge research on content relating to fungi and protists, including chapters on yeasts, algal blooms, lichens, and intestinal protozoa. This concise and affordable book is an essential reference for students and researchers in microbiology, mycology, immunology, environmental sciences, and biotechnology.
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Table of Contents
PREFACE
I. FUNGI
Yeasts
Aspergillus: A Multifaceted Genus
Clavicipitaceae: Free-Living and Saprotrophs to Plant Endophytes
Microsporidia: a model for minimal parasite-host interactions
Mycorrhizae
Endophytic Microbes
Lichens
Plant Pathogens: Newly Emerging Diseases
Fungal and Protist Plant Pathogens
Entomogenous fungi
Fungal Infections, Systemic
Fungal Infections, Cutaneous
II. PROTISTS
Amitochondriate Protists (Diplomonads, Parabasalids, Oxymonads)
Amoebas (Lobose)
Ciliates
Secretive ciliates and putative asexuality in microbial eukaryotes
Coccolithophores
Diatoms: The Grass Menagerie
Dinoflagellates
Dyctiostelium
Foraminifera
Euglenozoa
Protozoan, Intestinal
Leishmania
Oomycetes (Water Mold)
Picoeukaryotes
Stramenopiles
Toxoplasmosis
Trypanosomes
Sleeping Sickness
Secondary endosymbiosis
Algal blooms
Food Webs, Microbial
Authors
Moselio Schaechter San Diego State University, CA, USAExpertise: Microbial Physiology and Ecology, Field Mycology, Microbiological Education, Science Communication. Dr. Schaechter is a Distinguished Professor, Emeritus at Tufts University, where he served as chairman of the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology from 1970 to 1993. He has worked on bacterial growth physiology and the relationship of the chromosome and the bacterial cell membrane. He has authored ten treatises and textbooks, most in collaboration with others, plus a book for the general public, In the Company of Mushrooms. He has served as President of the American Society for Microbiology. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Biology Department, at San Diego State University and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego.
