The diatoms : biology & morphology of the genera /
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| Author / Creator: | Round, F. E. (Frank Eric), 1927- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1990. |
| Description: | 747 p. : ill. 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/972338 |
Table of Contents:
- 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 pseudo-noduli
- Raphe
- Girdle bands (copulae)
- Internal valves
- Resting states 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
- Appendix I. New Taxa
- Appendix II. List of recently described genera
- Appendix III.
- Index
- Nominum
- Genericorum
- References
- Taxonomic
- index Subject
- index
